Buenos Aires, part 1: going with the flow

I left home Thursday at noon to head to the Santiago airport then to Montevideo. The plan was for one night in Montevideo, then catch a ferry across the bay from Montevideo to Buenos Aires. We got to Montevideo around 8 on Thursday night, which was good because it was the only part of the trip that we'd planned or the only reservation that we'd made.

An hour or so later, we met up with my friend Rob, an Ole Miss guy that is studying in Montevideo for the year. He took us around town to a really cool outdoor cafe/bar area in the old downtown part of Montevideo, and then afterwards to a club on the beach overlooking the Atlantic ocean with some of his Uruguayan friends. It was a lot of fun, plus he's the first friend from home that I've seen in several months. It was definitely good to catch up and hear what everyone is doing with themselves.

Step two of our odyssey was figuring out how to get from point A to point B. It went like this:

Because of time, money, and the general last minute nature of this trip, we took a bus from Montevideo to Colonia, Uruguay, then a ferry from Colonia to Buenos Aires. This gave us a great chance to see a lot of the Uruguayan countryside, which is awesome if you like cattle. We did manage to get bumped up to first class on this bad boy for the aquatic portion of our adventure:

It involved a lot of complimentary champagne and ocean views. If this had been the Titanic, we definitely would have been on a lifeboat. We finally got to Buenos Aires (henceforth referred to as BsAs, because I'm lazy) and saw this awesome view of the town by sea:

At this point, I feel like I'm getting a little long-winded, so I'm going to pick the story back up in a miniseries-style format. So stay tuned, more BsAs when you get back.