December 12- San Telmo Market

I realize our posts have been quite long and detailed. I'll keep this one short and sweet. We spent the day walking for miles through the San Telmo neighborhood looking at art, antiques and old men selling  homemade squawking chicken toys- Bowen bought one and tormented his brother with it for the rest of the day.
One of the strange food things we found at the market was the dry fruit and popcorn on a stick. Not very artfully presented or appetizing.

 We purchased our first piece of art from South America which will give us both something to worry about for the rest of the trip.

This market was incredible and went on FOREVER! Liz loved taking pictures of the hand painted signs that we see everywhere here - the Pizza a la  Piedera sign is a good example of the style Liz likes so much.

Seltzer is very big here as you can see by the  bottles for sale at the market. At lunch that day we saw a man order some for himself in a restaurant.  We love the grocery store version too that comes in plastic and allows the boys to make their own soda! We need this at home.

Hollis has been taking some great pictures of the graffiti  then editing them on his ipod. Here are a few examples of his work.

- Liz