Wow can't believe that i returned home over a month ago , time flies when you are working like a dog ! Trying to save up for my next trip , these trips are never cheap but thanks to friends they are usually much cheaper . We went to Buenos Aires twice and this will be about our first stop there :) Our first stop had us staying at the Howard Johnson Inn Palermo . Palermo is one of the many neighbour hoods in Buenos Aires , i was told to either stay here or in San Telmo and decided this was best based on prices, etc... 
Our good friend Alejo whom i met in Toronto when friends from Argentina visited back in February , met up with us and showed us such a good time . We started by going to pre drink before our night out at Alejo's good friends place , that is when we met Lupe ! She is awesome , so energetic and of course a hockey player ... basically everyone we met that night played hockey , it was great . That night was crazy for me meeting up with all the guys i met in February . They really showed us a great night , we ended up at this awesome bar which had 3 floors and at first it was strange because it seemed like we were the only guys there . I am off the market but my 2 buddies are up for some fun so it seemed like a great place to get really drunk . We stayed there really late and when we decided to leave we took a taxi , and it was a long drive around the corner LOL ! seriously we could have walked but we had no clue where we were .... 
Day 2 saw us going out to watch some inline hockey . I have never actually watched a live game and this game was for the championship ... i think it was game 1 of a best of 3 series . The place where they hold the games is called Peru Beach , pretty cool set up right beside the water with shopping area not too far and an actual beach with some food vendors . We watched most of the game with our buddy Alejo ... too bad we didn't get to watch Ashby play as we picked him up for his game too . we had to leave to go skate on the ice :) it was on the opposite end of city though . Alejo i gotta say bud you friggin rock for doing all that driving to show us around , thanks boludo ! 
So as you see above , i did go to the rink to play ... unfortunately i did not bring my own gear as i had a flight like 6 hours after and didn't want my gear to be wet and was told there would be gear for me at the rink . Well there was gear at the rink , but it did not fit :( so i watched Andi skate there and trust me that sucked as this rink was different . Alpina Skate (name of rink ) is in a friggin bar !!!! no joke , we almost walked by it on the road as we were looking for an arena LOL . we were told to go inside this bar and way at the back of the bar was the ice pad ... its unreal . Funny as i got undressed i thought this isn't the first time i have been naked in a bar HAHAHA . Of course this rink had its own version of a zamboni as seen above .
We didn't have much time to spend on our first stay in Buenos Aires , and to be honest i totally loved it there and was looking forward to the return trip . I would love to thank Alejo and Lupe and the rest of the gang there ... was great meeting up with Max and Pablo again , and it was great meeting all the new people like Matt and Liz ... you all helped me with some great memories . Next time i visit Alpina i will bring my own gear :)
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