More fun!

Ok, so I figured that the next time I wrote I would be done reading.  But… NO.  Heini and his hand writing turned out to be a PAIN!!!!  However, the work isn’t horrible, and we’ve had some great days to go with it.  On Friday we had our own little adventure to “El Geant.”  It is a huge store with a mall on the outskirts of Montevideo, where Maia had an appointment to renew her I.D.  Once there we looked around, bought some fun things, and looked around the store.  At one point, the ABBA song “money, money,money”  was playing, and Maia and I, like the fools we are, were singing along.  At one point, an older man  starts walking our way, so we stop.  And then we hear him sing “money, money, money, must be funny, in a rich man’s world.”  We had to bite our lips not to burst out in laughter.  After that, I sat down to have a coffee, and Maia did her little paperwork, and we left.

On the bus back, a guy and his guitar got on (approx. 20 years old).  The bus driver warned him that he was the 4^th to get on and that people might be tired, but he did anyhow.  When he went to talk to us, he could barely speak without coughing, he had no voice, and it was obvious he had a fever.  Maia and I looked at each other and braced ourselves for what was about to occur.  When the guy started singing, it was AMAZING.  Our jaws dropped, you couldn’t tell that he had no voice and was sick… It was amazing.  We gave him some money and then continued to Elena’s house. 

Once there we enjoyed the afternoon and then at 6, headed to Ale and Mati’s for dinner.  We had a BLAST! Stayed up chatting till around 2 a.m. and then went to bed.  This morning, we went to “la feria” (a little market, well … not that little) and shopped around. 

 After that, we headed to a “Parrilla,” where we had enough meat to feed a million!! After that, we returned to Elena’s (the wonderful Ale drove us) and we got ready for the ballet.

We met up with Lucia and Nacho before the ballet in front of the theater, and then we sat in our amazing seats that my aunt got us through Canal 12 (the tv station she works at).   The ballet was WONDERFUL!!!!  I, who usually never likes ballets, was beyond impressed!!!  I would recommend it to anyone.  There was a mix of all kinds of music, percussion, and dances. LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT!  Now, I am back at Elena’s and am about to finish up with Heine, because I truly can’t read his handwriting for another day!!!

Old picture of the Barro Negro Bus (theater on bus)

Inside bus