We're Here!

After 24 hours of travel, we are finally in our hotel room in Buenos Aires. We didn't end up missing any flights, or having any of our connections canceled... but it's not all good news. They did a last minute aircraft swap and we were forced to wedge ourselves into THESE on the plane we were assigned:
No glamour seats! Unbelievable... the humanity of it all! I'm kidding here of course. The seats were fine and it wouldn't have mattered a whole lot anyway. I think I was awake long enough to eat half of what was on my plate before sleeping the rest of the way. We flew through the storm we were talking about earlier and it was turbulence like I have never experienced. You know it's bad when the flight attendants have been instructed to remain in their seats, buckled up for three full hours. Crazy. We did a quick stop in Santiago, Chile, and then landed in Argentina to find out the airport workers were on strike. There was one luggage team unloading every plane that touched down. About an hour later, the conveyor belt started burping out luggage and luckily our two bags were some of the first.

We arrived at the Alvear Palace Hotel in Buenos Aires. Wow, wow, wow. As far as service goes, it is above and beyond anything we have stayed at before. It started by welcoming us to our room which was equipped with fresh fruit, fresh cut roses, and Hermes products in the bathroom. Here are some pictures:
We also just finished having our La Prairie 'jet-lag recovery' massage in the spa downstairs. Once that was over, we came upstairs and ordered up a bottle of wine... a bottle that cost about $20. Look at what we got:
That's all for now. Time to go explore.