Montevideo is a small capital compared to Buenos Aires, yet still manages to pull off the smoke n' fumes kind of feel. Thankfully there is a ton of back-roads, so Benjamin (my brother for those of you who don't know) and I took a sweet bike trip on bicycles that had two gears: go and don't go. We then dropped them off at the rental place that was certainly a man's domain, what with the car posters all over the work shop, swimsuit calendars on the walls, and the glow of an arc welder on all sides. Our cuisine, for those who are interested, still consisted of empanadas (which are ground beef chunks wrapped in awesome), ravioli, and shepherd's pie. The craziest food encounter was when we accidentally bought ultrapasturized milk. I'll keep my eye's out for frozen monkey brains or something.
Now, after a day of bad translations, lost visas, grueling suns, boats on steroids, and racist/sexist taxi drivers, we have finally been able to sit down at a suprisingly awesome hotel back in Buenos Aires that has flowers on the curtains. God I love curtains.
Comments:
from now on llamas are priority, i agree. However, i need anyone who used the name "anonymous" to put their name in, because it will make me smile.
swearing in comments is frowned upon
I'll totally try to get my hands on a sombrero. God I love sombreros.
Thanks william, but i will try to get my hands on whack food before peru
Henry, to the second half of your comment.... that's what she said
Nailah, i will only speak spanish on this blog if you correctly translate the following phrase into spanish. "The fish was delish, and it made quite a dish"
I miss bus rides, but not the people on the bus rides. Yay Binghams!
geography bee... i'm totally missing out.... *sight*
patrick! follow the following instructions in order:
make a blog
post your comments as the writer of that blog (even though you don't need to write a blog)
now i can block you lovingly
I'll get started on the pictures in two or three days after a snap a couple shots of Iguazu falls, the wides falls in the world! It is going to be, if you pardon my abbreviation, quite BA
alex! it sounds like you're having a great time!
ReplyDeletei totally agree with everyone who says you need to try sweet and exciting food!
~ Halle
Lolllllllllll, i didn't even catch that "thats what she said," when i was writing the comment, but thats a good one Alex. I'm like sitting in my desk at home and i read ur comment and literally burst out laughing
ReplyDeletehey alex,
ReplyDeletesounds like you are having an awesome time!!
where are you going after buenos aires?
i'm glad you found a good hotel with....curtains......
anyway... miss you loads!
-merrit
p.s. patrick, i agree with alex that you should make a blog
You're not gonna get much sympathy from me, buddy. School for 4 hours a day doesn't exactly make me break down in tears at the unfairness of it all. Odd that the first thing you notice when you walk into a hotel room is the curtains. bathroom? big deal. running water? Who needs it? But curtains, on the other hand...
ReplyDeletehey, now i am sitting back and watching the ensuing chaos and doing my best to only post once
ReplyDeleteand despite what many people say, i do have a grain of common sense if started a blog, readership would not be a problem (no one would care, the last thing the world needs is is another blog penned by a person with no life (which is not you alex, just clarifying) that would be more interesting written backward in the alphabet of mordor in dwarven.
by all the strange analogies to lord of the rings and dungeons & dragons in the previous piece of text, you can probably guess who i am
hi this all sounds awesome!
ReplyDeleteThough just out of curiosity, wat did u do with the unpasteurized milk? and did u find ur visas or will u stuck in hotel rooms with flowery curtains for the rest of ur life?
-michelle
ah alex
ReplyDeletei am really curiuos as to that boat on steriods story, do tell. i feel like i'm getting about one bazillionth of what's happening,
i mean aren't you doing service projects?
i bet you've met SOME interesting people--other than racist/sexist taxi drivers (i would also like to know the story behind that, if it's not to horrible to tell)
what is the awesome that the chunks of meat are wrapped in? because i'm pretty sure that awesome isn't very edible when you can't hold onto in, unless you can suck it through a straw
since you love curtains so much, i suggest you make sure to stop whats-her-name from enchanted visiting your house
-paige
comment answers in comments!
ReplyDeleteMerrit:
I'm going to Iguazu falls aftwerwards. widest in the world. you're jealous
Patrick should NOT make a blog, just a blog name/address/i don't know
Michelle:
what else do you do with unpasturized milk?
you let it age for three months, then mix in the ground dust of the knuckles of the red spotted alburmung, and let it sit in a mold for three hours while switching its location between the fridge and the oven. no, actually, i threw it away.
no, we went to another guy who didn't seem to care about us, and we got back to buenos aires.
Paige:
Boat on steroids: a passenger boat that fits about a thousand people and looks like it should not float
service projects will be in chile, ecuador, and peru. right now it's just spanish classes.
The taxi driver basically had a one way conversation where he said the following " i sailed in the greek army obama is bad because he is a negro and his wife is smarter than him and that is just not right.
the awesome can come in quite a few forms. in this case it is fried yum.
if that girl from enchanted so much as lays one finger on my curtains....
alex hope you have fun at the falls
ReplyDeletewilliam
i should be happy and excited and want to share stories
ReplyDeletebut really
i just miss you. a lot.
WAIT ONE SEC DID YOU SAY IGUAZU?? I LOVE THAT PLACE!!!!! HAVE FUN!!!! HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF FREAKING FUN!!!!!
wow... sorry... that was a huge mood swing.... i still miss you though!!!
HI Alex!
ReplyDeleteYou're really lucky, we have to do the ERBs all week here. At least we have the Geography Bee soon. Here are a few questions for you:
1. What is the capital of Fiji?
2. Where on the map is Tasmania?
3. What is the capital of Belgium?
I'll post the answers tomorrow.
Joe
Hey Alex.
ReplyDeleteI wrote the llama thing. Sorry! I could have sworn I put my name in!
Anyways, yes, curtains are good, unless they're the evil type that try to kill you. (That HAS happened to me before... evil curtains! I WILL VANQUISH YOU!! ...ahem.)
Another type of curtain that isn't fun is venetian curtains, because they're boring and my parents love them. It's a good warning sign, actually: If my parents love something, you know it's awful."
Hey did you see any abandoned stray puppies? If so did you give them love? Puppies need love!! ^^
Oh, a manly bike shop, eh? Was it manly manly, or just manly?
Have you eaten any people yet? If not, why? You need to keep up a healthy diet!
Love you Alex bye!!!
From: Stephanie D. Carlson
(Yes, I HAD to put the "D." in there!)
Hey Alex,
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are writing about your trip. It is great to hear what you guys are up to. I love the way you write, kind of like being there with you. Have fun and say hello to everyone for me. Hugs Lauri
Hey, this is caleb! i hope you dont know what comments i have made because i have not done many! =( hope you are having a good time
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