With the help of our friendly friends Joy and Jillian's similar situation our transition from Passportless Nicolson to celebrating New Years in Punta del Este as planned was smoother than we dramatized it to be. We met up with them in Buenos Aires and traveled together in Buquebus to Punta del Este where we celebrated New Years in the most unreasonable way. Midnight was normal as we had a delicious asado with Pancho's family and celebrated Pancho's father, Jose, birthday. After Midnight Pancho and his brother Nacho drove us to the party Jillian had told me of to meet up and so we looked and looked for over an hour. After not finding anything we headed to the bars where they dropped us off and who is pulling up right there immidiately as we get off the car in a pickup trucks full of girls??? Joy and Jillian and her crazy friends...
New Years and the entire week after it was great spending it in Punta with my sister, Pancho and his family, Joy&Chilli and her amigas de Buenos Aires. It gave us time to relax a bit and catch up on everything we had not eaten before and wash all our clothes we had not washed since the year before...
The part about Uruguay that I like, enjoy, find amusing, observed and so on is its location and its size and the people. The thing that I find so interesting is that because of the size of the country everyone there knows everyone. Nick and I went to see No Te Va Gustar and we knew three people that knew band members personally or grew up with them or was having an asado with them. The geography of the country is also quite strange because it is surround by the two biggest countries of S. America, Argentina and Brasil and the ocean of course. Never as strange or bizarre as Chile but the entire concept of countries and boundaries and people belonging to a region just hit met entirely. You are living in a country and everything on the television or newspapers or what people are talking about are things going on in that country. Two people living nearby each other on the Argentina Uruguay border can have completely different views of the world and where they are and where they think Carlos Gardel is from. I find this topic of countries and borders quite interesting and yet bizarre as we have crossed and seen a lot of different borders and all sorts of forces that keep certain people out of each others countries... Im exhausted, just a thought.
-ric
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