Bread of Sugar

Finally Andi and I get to do some traveling around Uruguay.
We have been hanging out with my mom, Sofia and Gustavo for the last couple of days and it has been really fun! Once I finally got over criticizing Mom about everything I don't agree with... it seems we are able to have a much better time. I think I am growing up! I see things I don't agree with and think... "well she is an Adult... she knows what she is doing" instead of "ahh! Mom you are driving me crazy!".
The past couple of days have been exciting. On Wednesday evening we left pretty late to Punta del Este, the fanciest place to go to the beach in Uruguay. Sofia, Andi and I stayed in a hostel. We took the bus from Tres Cruces to Punta del Este, a two hour trip. After dropping off our stuff at the hostel we dashed for the giant fingers coming out of the beach to have a photo shoot. I love Sofia's tripod! It is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I think it's great that my little photographer has one.
I climbed the pinkie finger as did Andi. Sofia and Andi climbed the thumb as well.

The next day, we woke up and went to the beach nice and early. It was so much fun. The water was a great temperature. The sun was shining. We had a fabulous time. Sofia took pictures of us in the water. I will have to post some at some point. Around 12:30 Gustavo came with his car. We walked around Punta del Este a bit and then went to Minas, which was about a 2 hour ride. In Minas we went to the town center and then to the "Parque Salus" which is where the fountain of the puma is.
According to legend, the puma used to sit by that fountain until some people spotted him. The puma seemed to be guarding the fountain. Eventually the puma realized that the people would guard the fountain for him and he left and never came back. Supposedly people saw the ghost of the puma around the park. The Salus water we drink here in Uruguay comes from Minas. The fountain of the puma was totally dry when saw it... pretty sad actually... but kinda funny, too.

Anyway that night we checked into a hostel in Piriapolis. We went to have dinner with mom at a pizzeria that night because she took the bus to Piriapolis. The next day we traveled around Piriapolis. We went to pan de azucar, sugarbread, and saw a lot of Uruguayan animals. The carpinchos were really cute! In the evening we went up to a mountain with the chair lift. It didn't look like the safest system, the chair lift... but we survived! We had dinner in a fish restaurant and the next day we went back to Montevideo.
It was nice to spend some time with this part of the family. It is a truly rare dynamic: Maria, Gustavo, Andi, Ana and Sofia. Gustavo made us all crack up pretty often. Especially Sofia and I enjoyed spending time with him :)