We packed up our things, returned my rental boots and said a big good-bye and thank-you to the whole Simari-Birkner clan on the 31st of July and caught our flight back to Buenos Aires. Luckily everything was okay with our flight. The eruption from the Puyehue Volcano in June is still wreaking havoc not only on many of the domestic Argentina flights, but also flights on the other side of the globe in Australia and New Zealand.
We were sad to leave the snow, the ski hill and the new friends we have made behind, but excited to keep moving on in our journey.
Here are a few more shots from our last night with the crew in Ushuaia. We celebrated by having a big bonfire with Oscar, the owner of the cabins, heating things up with his jerry can full of diesel.
Chilling in the cabins, eating Teresitas delicious torte!
Warming up by the fire, trying to pay attention as Oscar would toss diesel onto the flames without a word of warning!
Angie Simari-Birkner and I. Yeah for puffy jackets.
When we arrived back in Buenos Aires we had a relaxing few days at my friend Alex's place near downtown. It was great to have a place to crash and unwind for a few days before setting off to Uruguay.
We wanted to try out Couchsurfing.com as we are seriously getting to the end of our budget, but unfortunately we were not successful in Uruguay as we had left it so late, so we opted to try out a hostel in the old town of Montevideo.
After taking the ferry across the Rio De La Plata and a bus from Colonia to Montevideo we strolled from the bus station to our hostel. Unfortunately we found the city pretty smelly and run down and things didn't get much better when we got to our smelly ghetto hostel. However we tried to make the best of it and walked around the old town and out onto the old breakwater.
Montevideo from the breakwater. It was definitely a beautiful day!
Looking out to sea.
This picture is for the ski team girls living in Alberta this summer. Graffiti Levitation. Thinking of you and hoping you are having a great camp down in New Zealand! See you in a few weeks!
The lock fountain.
"The legend of this lock fountain tells us that if a lock with the initials of two people in love is placed in it, they will return together to the fountain and their love will be forever locked"
After Montevideo we headed to the small town of Colonia to stroll around and check out the history. The water here is extremely brown... but we are hoping that is just from all the water churned up from the river delta.
Colonia was really beautiful and the perfect place to spend an afternoon. It felt like stepping backward in time.
More of Colonia
Andrew soaking up the sunshine.
BIRDS
Classic.
After a couple days in Uruguay we decided to come back to Buenos Aires where the hostels are surprisingly cheaper and there are endless interesting streets to walk around.
While we were strolling we ran into this in the center of the city. Effectively it states that Buenos Aires is attempting two Guinness World Records. One for the most amount of magicians in one continuous show and the second for the most amount of magicians doing the same trick at ONE time. We were so excited to run across this, but unfortunately after staying about 45 minutes we realized there is only so many times you can see the disappearing handkerchief trick, so we moved on.
We now only have four days to patiently wait before our flight to Jacksonville, Florida and in one week tomorrow we will hopefully pick up our much missed Kumu!! The adventure will continue...
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