Currently on a ferry from Uruguay to Argentina. It looks
like a giant airplane on the inside, with seats with trays and aisles. We spent
the day in Colonia, Uruguay, which is the complete opposite of Montevideo. It is
very European and very quaint. The streets were all cobble stone, with hardly
any cars. It was like a storybook town. Every little building had character and
detail. It is very expensive to live there, though. The homes along the street
cost millions of dollars.
We spent the first
couple of hours there just sitting at a café, drinking mate and sketching. We
split off into two groups, so I spent the day with Kristi, Ege, and the two
professors, Ana and Spodek. Ana and I both got mate, which is a very popular
tea in South America. They drink it out of mugs full of tea herbs and you pour hot
water into the herbs. Then there is a spoon straw that filters the herbs out
but you drink the liquid it produces. The first sip was very bitter, so I
loaded it up with sugar and that seemed to help. Then we sat and sketched the
beautiful street where we were sitting outside and listening to a live guitar.
It was so relaxing. I could have sat there all day.
After our morning sketching session, we went to lunch at a restaurant
on the river called Charco. It was very nice and also reasonably priced! I had
some mushroom ravioli combo, and it was delicious. During lunch my stomach
started feeling off, and I think it was the sugar hitting me. Luckily it was a
relaxing day!
We went up in a lighthouse that overlooked the whole town.
It was picture perfect. The sun was starting to go down over the water, the
flowers were all a perfect collage of colors, little mopeds were jetting down
the streets…it was just a phenomenal little town. Definitely my favorite day of
the trip so far.
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