"twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. so throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbour. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover."

                                                                                -mark twain

Friday, January 19, 2007

A New Post...A New Country

A quick geography lesson: Buenos Aires lies directly on Rio de La Plata, near the Atlantic Ocean. Rio de la Plata is extremely wide near Buenos Aires (because that is wher it meets the Atlantic ocean) and serves as part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay.

So today we took the ferry to Uruguay!

We went to a town called Colonia which has a very well-preserved "Bario Viejo" complete with cobble-stone streets, colonial architecture, and some buildings remaining from the 17th century. We walked around a lot, stopped for lunch at a restaurant where the waiter sang to us and sat on the grass by the river, until the mosquitos and a thunderstorm chased us away.
















7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Colonia is just about one of my very favorite places in the world!
Glad you made it there!
Love U MOM Cori

Anonymous said...

Hi Grace & Martin...

This is so wonderful to see everything that you are doing. Grandpa says to eat plenty of Argentina beef. We wish you a happy & safe journey in this part of your life's adventure.

All our love..Grandpa & Grandma V

Anonymous said...

Wow! Wow! Wow! Looks like fun! I am also love that you went to the zoo. Thinking of you, Jen

Damien said...

Uruguay, is that really a country or are you making that up? Anybody else heard of Uruguay?... Next thing we'll hear is that you are going to visit some other fictitious place like, Paraguay or something. Have a great time!

Annie said...

I like the picture of grace with the geese/duck/swan thing, -keep an eye on them grace, they're very sneaky... Beautiful pictures, nice work! Shman.

Anonymous said...

now that you've gone to uruguay, the next logical question is...when are you going to paraguay?

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.