## Arriving in Buenos Aires
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After leaving Palm Springs, our first stop -- Phoenix!
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Then Miami, where we met up with Mom and Dad.
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Mom and Dad settling in on the overnight flight.
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Will they get any sleep? Just a bit.
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Checking back in for our next flight in Lima, Peru. The line was long and we were starting to get a little nervous. They called for folks on our flight to join a shorter line at another desk to expedite us and we made it onto our next flight without issue.
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Our room at Mio Buenos Aires, a boutique hotel in the Recoleta neighborhood. This is the upstairs bedroom in our hotel room.
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Swanky place -- the downstairs was a living room and powder room.
## Recoleta
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Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the basilica that sits just outside the cemetery gates.
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Buenos Aires at dusk from the hotel room.
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Havanette — a chocolate and dulce de leche cake with a shortbread base. Incredible, and you can buy little cone-shaped dulce de leche treats for an individual-sized version of it. (I bought a box of six before we got on the cruise ship to have as stateroom snacks.)
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Here we go, Buenos Aires!
## Recoleta Cemetery
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Huge, ornate, sprawling, and beautiful!
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The Duarte family tomb — resting place of Eva Perón.
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Municipal plaque honoring Evita, from the town of Los Toldos where she was born.
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Mom pointing out one of Evita's plaques.
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The Mio gave us peppermint patties, which I definitely stashed away for "stateroom snacks" on the ship.
## Embarkation Day
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The embarkation hall at Terminal de Cruceros Quinquela Martín — packed and buzzing. We had a bit of a wait being Group 31 (you can see the sign in the back - Group 16 currently called.)
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## Onboard Celebrity Equinox
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First cheers of the trip.
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Mom and Doug on the Equinox deck with Buenos Aires alongside us.
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Tango performance onboard — a fitting send-off from Argentina.