We've been in Argentina for four months, and we're finally having our first visitors. We're so excited! My parents and two of my cousins are coming to see us. My parents and these cousins live only about 20 minutes from us back home in the States, so we're used to seeing them all the time.  We are also excited for them to take some things home with them. When we came here, we had 15 pieces of luggage total. We've also accumulated a few things since coming here so sending some stuff home with my parents will make traveling home much easier.

We're halfway through out time in Argentina, can you believe it? Before I came, I had no idea what the shopping would be like here so I figured I would take you along for a few shopping trips so you know what you can and can't get here. Lets go!

Since we are homeschooling our daughter I try to find educational opportunities wherever we go. Our family recently went on a trip to Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Brazil and I tried my best to make this trip fun, entertaining and educational for our daughter. While she does love being outside and she loves nature, I really wanted to lean into her special interests to make this trip as fun and as memorable as possible.

Recently, we took a little getaway to Iguazú Falls. If you don't know, Iguazú Falls is on the border of Argentina and Brazil, right near Paraguay. It was a bit of an adventure, we traveled from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazú, which is on the Argentina side. We flew with Fly Bondi and it was, frankly, a terrible experience, but we still enjoyed the trip so I wanted to take you along for all of the ups and down of the trip.

Let's talk a day in the life here in Argentina. My seven year old autistic daughter was up from 3:00-5:45 AM so I'm exhausted, but my husband left for work around 7 and the baby woke up 45 minutes later so we have to rally and get the day rolling!

I took the kids to a new park, so come along with us while we explore the city! We went all the way to the Recoleta neighborhood (which is not at all close to where we live) to the Plaza de Republica de Chile, to the park and then I was able to do some exploring on my own later on.

Tuesdays are the day that we have a cleaning company come clean our apartment here in Buenos Aires, which is awesome. However, they come randomly anytime between 10 and 6 on Tuesdays. I have started to put a sign on the door when the baby's napping because he's in a phase where he will only nap in his crib, so I really don't want that time interrupted. After that, though, I try to get out of the apartment so that we're not in the way when they're cleaning. We've started to make a fun "field trip" of it. This week we decided to go to Ecoparque.

Come with us for a day at Temaiken. This is a zoo and ecological park about 40 minutes outside of Buenos Aires. We went on a weekday when it was cold and kind of misting out and there was almost no one there, it was incredible!

August 18th was Dia de las Niñas or Dia de las Infancias, which is Childhood Day here in Argentina and it is a BIG deal. I had so many people ask me if we celebrate this in the US and we don't, but I can confidently tell you that we should!

Come with us for a weekend in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay! Our original plan was to be on the 12:30 PM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia, but immigration decided that we needed a document that we didn't actually need. So we had to push our ferry back to the 6:45 PM. Since it turned out that we didn't actually need those documents, it was incredibly frustrating that we lost half a day. However, once we were able to get on the ferry the day really turned around.

For the most part it has been pretty smooth since moving here. However, there have been a few culture shocks that I've experienced as an American moving to Argentina.