Back to Uruguay

Hello All,

Thanks to everybody who still reads the blog, and especially for the comments. Sorry we don't update it more often...honestly though, since we are living quite a settled existence these days and are in the swing of a very regular routine, it would be boring as heck to write about what we do everyday. (Pretty much just school, homework, grocery shopping, capoeira/workout for anybody who is actually curious...Mom and Dad that is).

We did have quite an exciting week last week though, while we were on vacation from our holiday. For one, we went to Uruguay in order to renew our visas. We hopped on Buquebus (the ferry here) and made it across the Rio de la Plata to a place called Colonia four hours later (it is a sloooow ferry). We came home 8 hours later, only 98 pesos poorer, able to stay another 3 months here legally. Actually, it was meant to be I think, since Mike found a handful of Uruguayan pesos in the pocket in his trunks from when we there months ago, just enough to have a chivito for lunch (THE national food in Uruguay--basically a steak sandwich) without changing any money.

Here is Mike at the gate of the old walled city.

Uruguay is supposed to be a little like cuba, with tons of old cars everywhere...a collectors dream. I guess that is why I didn't see all that many--they have all been collected.

With the remnants of the fortress.

Street scene in Colonia.

Mike with the ferry.