Quick update

Sorry for the lack of entries the past few days. We have been busy and traveling.

On Saturday evening we were invited to a barbque (parrillada) with the SAR folks. It was at Mario's sisters house. Mario taught us how to make the salsa of Bolivia. I got to grill a bit too. All the young volunteers got a kick out of watching the gringos working. They were all pleased we came. We were quite honored to be there.

Sunday morning we got up early and flew to Buenos Aires. There is a 2 hour time change so we didn't get to our hotel until about 6 PM. We rested a bit and then walked around. We were close to the central plaza, Plaza de Mayo so it was a short walk. We also found a nice restaurant to eat at.

The next morning we took our bags to the ferry terminal for our trip to Uruguay. We had to wait to check the bags until the previous ferry left. We had about an hour then. We jumped in a cab and went to the area called La Boca (the mouth) which is an artist area. It has colorful buildings. We heard tango music so we did a little tango in the street. No one complained that it was American ballroom tango. We zipped back to the terminal for our one hour boat ride.

Uruguayian customs was very simple. No passport stamping because people come here for the day. We are in the town of Colonia del Sacramento.

We got to our hotel and took a nap. Then went out and walked through the old colonial city. We stopped for a snack of cheese and meat. It was a good thing because when we went out for dinner it took 2 hours. We would have been really hungry by that time. We used the pool at the hotel and splashed around.

Today we are on our way up the coast to Nueva Palmero and Carmello.