Made it to Buenos Aires

The bags made it, we are in Argentina! Unfortunately super delayed so we missed the connection flight that were supposed to take us to Mendoza. Not much to do than to see if there was a later flight we could take. We were supposed to get into Mendoza around lunch time but would be fine as long as we would make it to 2:30am when our scheduled bus was supposed to leave.
The first thing we saw as we stepped out from customs was a McDonalds, awesome!

Since we already knew in Atlanta that we were gonna be 6 hours late coming in to Buenos Aires, we checked with Delta to see if they could book us on the next flight, they said there were only one flight a day going to Mendoza, so we had to wait for 24h or, check once we got to BA if there was another airline serving the route.

I thought Heathrow was the most unorganized airport in the world, but this was before I’d been to Buenos Aires international Airport. We went to the information desk, whom sent us to the domestic terminal to speak to Aerolineas Argentina, since they are partners with Delta it was no problem to get on the next flight out to Mendoza, leaving the same day, but 7 hours later and from a different airport. No problem, we would make it in time for our late night bus!

Aerolineas Argentina said we were on the plane, but since the ticket was issued by Delta, we had to go back to the international terminal to get our actual boarding pass.

Back to the international terminal we got sent to the Delta office, whom seemed closed, but a Delta employee pointed us to the Delta help desk which was on the other side of the terminal. Once we got to the help desk it was closed, we asked Air France help desk which was next door (and partners with Delta) and got informed the help desk opens 3 hours before the next flight leaves. Great, the Delta help desk would open up after our flight already left, but from a different airport, and the Air France staff could not help us. We walked back across the terminal with all our gear to the Delta office which now was open. They were very friendly, gave us a confirmation and arranged for a taxi to take us to the other airport.

Once at the other airport we had about 6 hours to kill, we took a stroll around Buenos Aires, had lunch and got back to the airport in time to check out what was on the menu. Any yes, the prices are in pesos and not in US$.

We finally made it to Mendoza, with plenty of margin for our bus to leave, so I bought a deck of cards. It turns out, an Argentinian deck of cards only have 48 cards, 4 x 1 to12. We asked if this was normal and, “yeah yeah, that’s normal” when we asked what games they play with the 48 cards, there was a long silence followed by “I don’t know”.
They know how to drink in style in South America, with 1 liter bottles of beers!

The bus arrived at 2:30pm and we are ready for a 6hour ride, heading south to Las Lenas.