Uruguay with Mom

Dad left on Monday, 12/6/10, and Mom and I left for Colonia, Uruguay the next day.  We were hoping to walk around Colonia for a little bit only to find out that Uruguay was an hour ahead of Argentina and we had to run for our bus. We took a morning bus tour of Montevideo and a day bus tour to Punta del Este.  We kept wondering where everyone was, all the Uruguayans, when we found out that we were staying in the financial district and the banks are only open from 1-5 everyday, and thats basically the only time that people pile into the financial district.

The boardwalk/bike path in Montevideo

 Some things we saw on our bus tour of the city

 It was a pretty windy day

 Congress

 Mercado del Puerto had some delicious meat stands

 El Palanque - the restaurant we ate at

 On the Punta del Este tour we stopped at a look out, and there was a chairlift also taking people to this look out

 The second stop on our bus trip was to see this incredible home

 The artist whose name I can't remember opened up part of his house to sell his art

 The artist: Picasso took him under his wing, and he is a very famous artist in Uruguay

 Fish market in Punta del Este

 SEALS! Our first and only water wildlife encounter

 The famous hand sculpture on the Punta del Este beach