"I'll laugh about this once I don't look like I have a combover." -Marlo Hartung
Original plan: Colonia, Uruguay. Until people told us it was expensive and boring compared to the utopian Tigre, the town of 500 rivers that look like tiger stripes. "It's a little Venice!" people said. "It's the best kept secret in Argentina! You have to go! They have water-ambulances and water-schoolbusses and water-pizza delivery!"
So on another hot and sunny morning, we hopped on the train with the unwashed masses and headed an hour north to check out Tigre for ourselves.
The clouds rolled in alongside our train.
At first, we laughed at the droplets. Then got a little quieter when lightning streaked above us. Then completely gave up trying to stay dry as every single business, boat launch, and water taxi closed up shop and we were left outside, wading through puddles as deep as our shins and 
laughing as hard as we could about our luck.
Eventually a tour bus driver swung his doors open, pulled us onboard, and gave us towels and garbage bags to put over ourselves. Then, in classic Argentine style, took pictures on his camera phone and asked us when we would all have dinner together. (Sir, that all depends on how quickly we recover from the whooping cough that I feel developing in my lungs as we speak.)
Finally we found our way to the train station through the tormenta and have never been so glad to see shelter.
Tigre, by the numbers:
1: % of the city observed
2: dulce de leche ice cream cones consumed because we felt sorry for ourselves
0: jungle tours taken
0: steak dinners ordered
0: leather purses found at the Mercado de Frutos
Oh yes. We've been to Tigre. If anyone has any questions about the town, we're your girls.
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