Tigre

• over the weekend, Jake and I joined some friends on a trip to Tigre, a small city on Paraná Delta, just a 45 minute drive north of Buenos Aires
• was a good time to go because apparently it gets very busy with tourists during the summer months
• we had a sunny day to walk around, take in the waterways, many rowers, cobblestones, and quaint buildings

• bought tickets for the 1:30pm boat tour then went to lunch at a recommended restaurant on the river, Maria Luján...Jake and I ordered delicious homemade pumpkin mascarpone ravioli with butter sauce and a juicy steak to share:

• All Aboard!  enjoyed some beer and dessert inside, then ventured to the front of the boat for a better view

our catamaran

• our two hour tour took us through much of the "neighborhoods" with the mostly tiny, interesting, and a couple nicer-looking lake homes on stilts...

• our guide informed us about how the city is run; gas, electricity, and so forth...she also told us about the "school bus boats", the "ambulance boats", "bus/taxi boats", that get citizens around...similar to Venice, I suppose 
• a grocery store will even come to your dock, pick up your list and grocery bags, fetch your groceries, and return the bags to your dock... 

docks...

too bad the water was so brown...

one of the several shipwrecks

• had about an hour until our parking meter ran out...so we checked out the infamous Fruit Market, which sells just about everything, except fruit

the infamous Fruit Market (sells everything except fruit)

our travel buddies

scooter graveyard

• Fun day with friends!  I can see us returning to Tigre for possibly an overnight stay in one of the delta cabins right on the water