Vacation on vacation Part 1

Que pasa?  I'm back in BA now, just hanging out finally.  So Friday morning us BC students took a ferry to Colonia, Uruguay.  Colonia is a quiet, old city/town right on the coast directly across the river from BA.  The weather was pretty gray when we arrived so we just checked into our hostel, grabbed some food, then just sat on the docks in the harbor and chilled.  It was pretty fun.  Then things cleared up a bit and we walked for a bit down to a beach and went swimming in the river (the widest river in the world).  We headed back into the town and searched for a place to rent go karts or scooters or something of the like.  Me and Dave and 2 girls got a golf kart and explored the town for a bit.  Theres a church from like 1650 or something like that, extremely old for South America, a cool old lighthouse, some cool little houses on cliffs overlooking the water, etc.  Then we headed back to the hostel and took a nap.  The guys the went out for dinner and found this cool little pub on a side street.

Uruguay is cheap.  I mean really cheap for Americans.  In this little pub we (4 guys) ordered 4 pizzas, a salad, a steak, sausage, 2 bottles of water, a coffee, and 9 bottles of wine (I honestly only had 3 glasses, mom) and it cost us $9 US each.  For 4 people.  Thats 9 dollars, nine dollars, nueve dolares, however you want to say it.  Makes you want to say hooray for the American economy we love to complain about so much.  I guess us gringos really are spoiled.


Then we went to a dance club because no matter how tired you are in South America, sleep isnt an option.  Just after we returned the golf cart it started pouring rain and continued monsoon-like until we left the next morning.  So in this dance club the ceiling leaked, just like every other roof in Uruguay, no joke.  We got to the dance floor and ditched our shoes and frolicked about in 2 inches of water, as the ceiling rained on us.  Normally this wouldnt be fun but we were entirely waterlogged from the day already (including clothes).  We danced for a bit then realized we needed to catch our 530am bus to Punta del Este in an hour, so we ran out real quick.


Stop at hostel to grab clothes, run to bus station, begin dance party.  I'm sure the ad hoc dance party at 530am in the station annoyed a few locals, but we just wanted to make sure we wouldnt wake up during the 5 hour bus ride.


Picture time, click to view full size:

 Brendan and Dave

Lots of people salsa dancing

Upon arriving in Colonia

Courtyard in our hostel

Sunset from Colonia