Cemetery Characters

We went to the cemetery today and it was really interesting. We were given a map and started walking around. There were some v. interesting tourists and feral cats in there.

We first ran into this older, hippy American woman who was so confused. She was so intent on following her map and one grave was mismarked and you would have thought she was lost in the middle of a city with no money and no clue how to get home. She approached us and asked if we spoke English. So we answered her, looked at the map and pointed out that while grave 104 did not match up, the grave next to it did and she was on the right track. Then we saw this grave and she proceeded to tell us how it was a grave of a girl who was in a coma and died, but then ended up being buried alive and clawed at the glass. Somewhere she had read about this... Anyway the date then said the girl died in 1970 and she convinced herself outloud that it was not the right grave because in 1970 they would know if someone was dead or alive...

We found the graves of the Duarte family and Evita. It's a super narrow path and we had to wait in line and then people took pictures and what not. Well there was this woman who walked right up to the front and just kind of stood there. So when people would line up the pictures she would shift and no one could take pictures. It was kind of funny. She may have been with the German/Dutch crowd.

Finally we were getting a little too much sun so we stopped by a grave to put on some more sunscreen. This Swiss tourist complete with hat, walking shorts, hiking boots, backpack, camera, and across the body wallet stops by. He proceeded to tell us all about how he got bug bites everywhere and showed us his arms and legs. I think he thought our spray sunscreen was bug spray. He probably thought we were rude because we didn't offer him any.