Fell a little behind in the posting, about three days behind by now. In the interim, we've left Ugy and are back in Buenos Aires. We've only got a day and a half of South American adventure left to go, which is crazy. By the time we board that plane, we'll have been here for 54 days total.
So we spent two more days in Montevideo. It was city-like, but without much city-life, at least as far as we could tell from where we were staying. Our neighborhood, the Centro was bustling during the day, but at night it was wah-waaaah (insert your own sad trombone noise), just like mid-town in Manhattan (excluding K-town of course. Miss you K-town!)
As for interesting things to do during the day, Montevideo offers multiple free and low-cost museums of varying quality. The photos above were taken at the Museo de Carnival. According to the museum, the Uruguayans really carnival it up, though in my admittedly limited experience, they seem like pretty sedate, mate-loving folk. They don't really rock it out all night like the Portenos across the pond, but it could be that all the cool stuff was happening out in the more suburban neighborhoods by the beaches (more on that in the next post).
Here's a really bizarre building in the Centro. It was briefly the tallest (and most unfortunate looking?) building in South America. Like so many grand old buildings in Ugy, it seems mostly abandoned with a few solitary windows lit up here and there at night. Must be very spooky to live there. Spoooooky.
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