
We're in apartment #3 and its a little bare since we have to furnish the whole thing. On Sunday, me Bryan Sol and Eva went to Puerto de Frutos. Its a huge open air artesan market 30 minutes outside of Buenos Aires in Tigre where you can find all kinds of cool stuff for a lot cheaper than in the city. They sell everything from lots of furniture, weird african statues, fountains and spices to shoelaces and Lizzy McGuire backpacks. Its not like going to the flea market where you bargain with the lady for 10 minutes, finally win and think you got a steal on the Coach bag, only until it breaks 9 hours later (true story); Tigres stuff is good quality with not the average look. The stuff had a Texas-y vibe mixed with Colorado and a dash of Mexico. Whattt does that mean? ok well, the cowboyness of Texas like my Aunt Janies house, mixed with the carved wooden bear feel like they have everywhere in Colorado with a dash of the indian, bright color, rustic feel Mexico has. It felt like I was at home-kind of. Maybe if Laredo was in Colorado? I still don't think Im pinning it. The picture below is just of one of the wicker stores. They love their wicker for some reason. But, moving on.
So, out of all the things we need- coffee table, coffee maker, chairs, plates yada yada.. what do me and Bryan come out with? A paraguayan hammock (the first picture is where I bought it) and two patio chairs. haha. Ugh, so typical of me. But in our defense, the patio chairs are now in the living room as real chairs and the hammock was way to cool to pass up and its hanging on the balcony. So they were good buys :) I think we're taking the train back to Tigre Saturday to get what we actually went for, a coffee table. hmmm... will it actually happen?
* The water in the picture is the Delta del Paraná that runs into Tigre.
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