Pascua con Mi Familia Argentina (Easter with my argentine family)

Me with my Easter candy from Carmen

Me and fat ass Diana

The fam

Me and Mami Carmen

YUM

SO, I thought Easter was gonna be a rough day for me. At home, we paint easter eggs the night before and mami hides them around the house and we search for the eggs and our baskets in the morning. As corny as that sounds, it's something I've always really enjoyed. Clearly, that's not how this year's Easter went.

I brought my friend Diana to Easter lunch with me. We road the train to a town called Tigre. It's in the provincia of Buenos Aires rather than the city. The train ride was about 45 minutes and we stood the entire time, while being stared down by a bunch of toothless, horny looking, very old and stinky men. What is it with people here?! YUCK! Once we arrived in Tigre, my host mom's daughter Mariavi came to get us with her boyfriend. From there, it was another 30 minute drive and that's when we arrived to wonderland! The houses were HUGE and most had in-ground pools. Clearly we had entered an even more rich area of Argentina and I was in love.

We get to the obnoxiously large house of my host brother Juan and his wife Andrea where we are greeted by, my host mom and dad, their son and daughter-in-law, Andrea's parents and aunt, and of course Mariavi and her boyfriend (forget his name, haha).

Anywho, we had an obnoxiously large amount of meat and sweets to last for the rest of the night. Mind you, lunch was at 1 and I couldn't eat for the rest of the day. Oh how I love the food. We ate outside in the nice weather where the food was being cooked on a grill. YES! I love this place.

Then, at the table, my host mami Carmen gave me a chocolate easter egg filled with candy. YUM! So although it was different, the holiday was still pretty great.