After an incredibly long flight--I had to sit for 5 hours at the airport in CHile waiting for my connecting flight to Montevideo--I arrived safe and sound to sunny Montevideo, last friday. It was a bitch climbing up to my apartment with two overloaded bags, shlepped from half around the world. I dream of traveling light, with elegance: tiny little hand bag in my arm and matching luggage checked in! Maybe one day, when I dont have to bring so much with me anymore!--books and shoes, I can't live without them!
Anyways, after a quick clean-up and unpacking as much as I could, came first visitors to welcome me: Juana and Javier. She is huge, she almost did not fit into the princess outfit I got her last month for her bday! Chit chat and a drink with Javi, then came Titi home! Juana stayed with me that night, she did not want to leave with her dad! It was an experience to have a sleep over with a 5-year old! When she wrapped her arms around me, and fell asleep immediately I understood a little bit why people want to have kids! They are really cute, I can only imagine if she was mine she'd probably be even cuter!
Saturday morning, as planned we met with my friends at the Mercado! Mauro, Mauricio, Mercedes, Nico met with Titi and I, it was an amazing day outside, with sun and fun. Couple of bottles of Medio Medio and some asado (my first in 4 months!), as usual we did not stop (they did not stop actually because I could not drink not even half as much as I used to) until 8 pm, drinking beer in different bars. The last place we sat in the old city happened to be one of the branches of the restaurant where Juan told me he was working! Quiet bored of the drunken conversations, I called him up to see how he was doing.
We drove to Pocitos, the shishy neighborhood of Montevideo, and sat at Juan's new joint. Little bit of chit chat and a great cup of coffee later, I was ready to go home and crash, and sleep for a long time! It took me a while to convince them to leave but finally I was driven home, and slept till noon next day. I must have been really really tired.
Sunday was another great day in Montevideo. We did not make it to Tristan Narvaja flea market as I hoped to but instead walked all around the city and watched the sunset at la Rambla, had churros, almost made the line for the amusement park together with the rest of the montevideans who were celebrating the first days of the spring after--what I was told--horribly cold days of July and August! I only hope the heat won't go down again because sleeping alone in the Cupula without proper heating won't be too much fun, would it?
As the people started to leave beautiful Rambla and the absence of the sun was making a difference in our bones, we also head home, had a quick dinner and get ready for my first day at work as the Latin America correspondant of CNN Turk!
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