The ship docked at the busy port of Buenos Aires. The cruise ships dock with all the other ships, so we had a great view of a busy port all day (Photos).
We skipped the organized tours again, and decided to walk around the city a little. We departed the ship at 9am. From the passenger terminal we took a free shuttle to downtown Buenos Aires.
We passed on the $9,000 necklace that we saw in a jewelry store and walked Florida Avenue which is a a street closed to vehicles and includes a lot of upscale shops. We were happy to be on this vehicle free street, as the traffic was incredible on the streets. After about five blocks we took a cab to San Telmo, a section of BA. We had been told this was a section of town where we would find handicraft work. We struck out for a nice walk on a cobblestone street, no cars and local people.
We found a little coffee shop with Wi-Fi and Nancy had her Latte and I had my Coca Cola Light while we launched our blog and checked email. Nancy ended up instant messaging with Matthew, Kathy, and Howard, all at the same time, while writing an email message to Holly.
We walked back to the store where we caught the free shuttle to the Port (we are cheap). Along the way we looked into a couple of churches and Nancy took some interesting pictures of stores and restaurants (photos). We made it back for lunch at one pm. 
It rained in the afternoon, and we had a quiet day and evening, taking in the evening entertainment, songs from Broadway shows performed by Margaret and Kami, cruise staff. As we pulled out into the River Plate on our way to Santos we were accompanied by a dramatic thunderstorm, the second one in recent days.
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