It was wonderful to spend a few days in Buenos Aires at the end of our study abroad. I was so impressed with the city. It was clean, beautiful, not too crowded, and really had a lot of culture. It was also a welcomed event to stay in hotel after 6 weeks of living in hostels. =)
Holiness to the Lord. The house of the Lord.
This is Katie, me, Liz, and Michelle outside of the temple. It was a pretty cool evening but beautiful still. We all became great friends on this trip we shared together.
This is in the same cemetary where the Peron family members rest. This always has flowers because the people loved Eva Peron so much. Her memorial plaque is the top one.
We also visited the most famous cemetary in Argentina called The Ricoletta Cemetary. It is for the rich families of Buenos Aires. The family will have a little house-like plot and then in the basement are floors and floors of stacked caskets with all the relatives together. You could see in the windows and count all the caskets below. Some were very elegant with marble floors, stained glass windows, Christus statues, vases with flowers, and places for visitors to sit. Others were very run down with broken windows, cob webs, shattered glass, and warped coffins. It was very interesting.
This is directly across the street from La Casa Rosada and it's the largest bank I've ever seen. This is a beautiful building and shows well the strong european influence in the architecture of Buenos Aires.
This is the beautiful Buenos Aires temple at dusk. This was our last stop in Argentina on our way to the airport. What a fantastic way to end the trip. The temple is beautiful inside and out. It was so neat to hear everything in spanish and realize the church is the same everywhere.
This is "La Casa Rosada" where Eva Peron gave her famous speech to the poor peasants from the top balcony. They repaint it all the time with different shades of pink but it's always pink. I'm the tiny person down by the gates. =)
The sun was going down and it was beautiful evening (well, it was pretty hot still but oh well).
At first it was weird having tons of pictures taken of us and we felt a little awkward. Eventually though, we got into it and enjoyed eachother. Our photographers were great and helped us to loosen up as you can see in this picture.
I made my own bouquet from Sam's Club roses. They were supposed to get pink roses in that morning but they ended up only having red so we made do and used those instead. Sean helped me a lot in tying the flowers together with floral wire and then wrapping it with ribbon.
Our photographer had me stand one step above Sean so it looks like I'm taller than him but I'm really not. =) 
