Last Supper

Saturday 13 January 2007

So, I was just cruising around ancient Jerusalem today, and this great group of guys invited me out to dinner. Turned out to be a bit more serious than I expected, though.

No, really, Ryan and I went to one of the more famous Argentine theme parks today: Tierra Santa. (Holy Land) Ryan's friend Kendra is visiting for a few days, so we figured we'd show her the odder side of Buenos Aires, and see something we'd been dying to go to ourselves. It is a park recreating the ancient middle east, with a "village" of full-scale buildings of plastic made to look like plaster and wood, giant fake palm trees that creak in the wind (why fake ones, I don't know, seeing as palm trees grow all over the place here), and of course, all kinds of statues depicting famous biblical stories. After going to Haw Par Villa in Singapore, which is dedicated to Chinese mythology among other random strange things and features detailed scenarios of every level of Chinese hell, we just knew we'd love this place. And we were not disappointed. One of the best parts were the anamatronic recreations of particularly important moments in religious history. The creation, the birth of Jesus, the last supper. Let me tell you, Jesus has quite the booming voice, and speaks excellent Spanish.

There was one great disappointment, however. The park boasts an 18-meter Jesus who rises from the dead every half hour, and we were quite excited to see the resurrection in person. Unfortunately, it was a little too windy for miracles, and Jesus was unable to resurrect. Ah well, we'll have to go back. We did get our pictures with the 15-foot-high Jesus torso, though, so that compensated a bit!