Kitties of the Botanical Gardens

After a late start, we headed back to Palermo by way of Santa Fe Ave, where I started my serious boot comparison shopping (no purchases yet.) We made our way to the Botanical Gardens, which were nice, but small. The only thing that really caught our eye was the fact that once again, there were a TON of feral cats everywhere in the gardens. We found a clearing with about 10 cats and started taking pictures, when all of a sudden, a woman that I dubbed “the Pied Piper of Kitties” came by with 2 huge bags of food. Suddenly, at least 50 cats from all over the garden came RUNNING over to her to vie for a scoop of food. Given that Robert & I are both cat-people, we were in absolute heaven & took several photos & petted many of the kitties.


Once we left the park, we headed back in to Palermo shopping district, but most stores were closed. We decided to head back to a restaurant which was absolutely packed on Friday night – La Comisa, which was pleasantly dead on a Monday. Our waitress was also kind enough to switch to broken English when she saw us struggling to order. I ended up getting the Pastel de Calabaza y Lomo, which we could best decipher as a cooked bowl of pumpkin, steak, egg, green onion, tomato, olives, and a LOT of butter. Essentially – heaven. We will learn to make this upon our return home.

As a general observation, everyone is extremely kind here. Porteños are very conservative and reserved, but very polite. I even noted at the concert from last night that no one pushed or shoved in a crowd of at least a thousand people. This is a very peaceful place.