Day two in Buenos Aires was devoted to re-establishing old family connections, visiting the port area, walking and of course more eating. We slept in a little late this morning trying to recover from yesterday's long cold day. We started the day at a neigborhood cafe with toast, jam and coffee. Bridget enjoyed some orange juice and really liked the toast. We then headed off to see my uncle at his tailor shop right in the center of Buenos Aires on Calle Montevideo. It was an amazing and emotional experience to see my uncle and his partner after 27 years. We exchanged family stories and reminisced about old times and other visits to Buenos Aires. We had lunch together at a restaurant on the corner near where my uncle worked. They knew my uncle and greeted him well but it didn't help the overall service. Bridget had her usual personal pan pizza with sausage (really locally made longaniza)and said it was fantastic, my uncle and I had the daily executive special of homemade lasagna stuffed with spinach and ground meat topped with a provolone and chevril cream sauce. It was okay. The best part of the meal was just sitting and talking with my uncle for a good two hours. It was a great moment and I was really glad to have this time with him. The only bad news was that I had to find out that a first cousin of mine passed away prematurely last week. Bridget was a real trooper through all this heavy duty Spanish conversation but we then headed out to the Puerto Maderos area by foot to check out all the new sights there. We took Avenida Cordoba all the way about twenty blocks to the port. The first thing we did at the port which really pleased Bridget was to make reservations on the BuqueBus Ferry to Montevideo and Punta del Este, Uruguay for later next week. They have a really nice terminal in the north end of the port. We then proceeded south exploring the beautiful new Puerto Maderos area with new hotels, restaurants and apartments. It is beautiful newly developed area that is really growing but a little to far from the heart of the city for my liking. I showed Bridget the old but truly architecturally beautiful Aduanas building (Customs House) where my father worked many years ago. We began walking back towards la Recoleta in what was an absolutely beautiful day in the upper 40's, my kind of walking weather. We walked through Plaza de Mayo and La Casa Rosada (The President's Workplace) where I showed Bridget the place where Juan and Evita Peron made many of their famous speeches to the masses. We stopped for a Quilmes draft beer and a Sprite as Bridget was really thirsty, across from the obelisk on Avenida Nueve de Julio (known as the widest street in the world). We got back to the apartment rested for a little while and headed back out for dinner at a local neiborhood restaurant " El Criollo" where Bridget ate Steak Milanese and French Fries and I had a Chicken Cutlet ala Maryland with ham, roasted peppers and juliene fries. It was okay but definitely not as good as yesterday's meal at the Palacio de la Papa Frita although Bridget liked her milanese. The evening was topped off at Munchies ice cream parlor where we had some outstanding Argentine ice cream made from the milk of their own heard of Jersey cows. Bridget had chocolate and I had granizado (chocolate chip) with sambayon. We both agreed that it was even better than Dairy Queen in New Jersey. So that's it for today, thanks for all the great comments and tips and yes they love all things Cuban here. See you tomorrow. Henry