Meeting families with Children in BA(November)

Tren de la Costa....

After a couple of days of settling into our new place, we had an agenda of things to get done! However, we all forgot that when you are in a foreign country and one with a different language, everything takes TIME!!! First priority was to meet other families with kids at the right age.

Life in a city is nothing like being a cruiser. Meeting kids here is much more challenging unless your kids go to the Lincoln school(international school, English speaking)or just any public school! When cruising, all families are seeking other kids all of which are usually home schooled.

But we joined many different Expat groups. Randall and I were busy going to social events to meet parents the first several weeks: cocktail parties, end of year parties, fashion show garden parties, museum tours, newcomers luncheons and the list goes on!

After some net working, we met the Willbanks, a family of 4 with a son 3, and daughter who just turned 13. Above you see Austin(soon to be 14) with Alicia 13 and the rest of her family with Randall. We went for a scenic train ride(Tren de la Costa) along the Delta del Parana to a town called Tigre. El Tigre, a riverside suburb of Buenos Aires, is where many portenos like to go to escape and relax in the countryside. It consists of a network of waterways with stilt houses and colonial mansions.