Vacation on vacation Part 2

Yes we passed out the entire way to Punta del Este.  How could we not after that super long day.  We arrived and wandered around lost in the big city trying to find our hostel.  We checked in and headed right for the beach.  Beach was not very crowded because it was a little overcast, but gorgeous nonetheless.  We all got sunburned then headed back to the hostel for showers for the first time in a couple days (I counted the rain in Colonia as a shower but others did not).  We hung at the very cool, hippie kind hostel for a bit then got ready for dinner.  We walked to a bustling, rich area of the city (the whole city is super rich for Uruguayan standards) filled with people at bars and classy restaurants, with live music all over.  We found a nice seafood restaurant and sat for a few hours.  Afterwards we walked around the city for a bit, its like a beach town on Fire Island or the Cape, except in city form.  Sounds controversial but it really is just an enormous beach town, with ice cream and surf shops everywhere, people in flipflops, lots of music, tons of restaurants, craft fairs, etc.

Sunday we checked out and headed back to the beach.  The weather was picturesque until about noon and it started pouring.  We went back to the hostel to grab our stuff then grabbed lunch and headed home.  Got back to BA around 1030, just in the middle of that light show that The Who played in front of.  We found a bar called Krakow with a bunch of Americans in it and grabbed dinner and watched the Saints fulfill my prophecy.

Today we had our first day of Spanish class.  We took a little questionnaire to test our Espanol, got lunch with 12 new foreign friends from class (almost all from France, but with a few French Canadians, a Dutch girl and an Australian).  Class was great, teacher is nice, students are all about at my level of Spanish, with a few superstars and a few hopeless ones.

Mas photos:

 

Bad picture of a small part of Punta del Este

 
 

Bad picture of the cool hippie room in our hostel

 

BC students in Punta

Sorry a lot of these pictures arent the best and that I have very few pictures of the cool stuff we do.  This weekend I wore board shorts the entire time and they have one pocket for phone and wallet, so camera was sacrificed.  The girls always have their cameras and take pictures nonstop, so as soon as they post them, I'll steal them and share them all with you.

Drum circle show tonight!  Estoy excitado!  Talk to you soon.