Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Welp..
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
I live in the Valley now..
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Life is too hectic
Monday, February 1, 2010
Stuck
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Idaho here I come
Friday, January 8, 2010
Back kind of..
The next morning, we woke up at eleven to try to take advantage of our last days of sunning. We also finally went jet skiing!! It was grossly overpriced though...fifteen minutes for fifty bucks! We got it down to forty dollars which is still totally unreasonable, but said fuck it and climbed on. I drove and I am proud to say that I did not flip us, but I did pass the speed limit that we were told to go at. Meh, the bottom line is we did not die and we got to see a huge fish jump out of the water. Clearly the highlight of the trip. Our Buquebus ride back was awesome. My cousin and I both bought perfumes in the duty free shop(no taxes), and I went to "el carajo" with mine because I spent nearly a bill on it. But hey, I love perfume and I love Dior AND I hadn't bought myself anything this whole trip!
Now I am back in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The hustle and bustle of the city is tiring and somewhat depressing. After so much calm, the grime and smell of exhaust fuel is harsh. Today I was supposed to go to La Boca which is a part of Buenos Aires that is really known for its painted buildings and Tango dancers, with my uncle Mariano but it turns out he left the city and I wont be seeing him. When I found this out I literally started crying. I called him last night at midnight to figure out what time I should meet him and he told me that him and his girlfriend split up. Guess he got so upset over it that he left the city and wouldn't be back until Tuesday. I leave Sunday. This absolutely crushed me. I see my uncle maybe once every three of four years. As a kid, this guy was my hero. I looked up to him and felt like he is my far away big brother. Now I wont get to say goodbye. I know this sounds kind of whiney but I don't really care. I understand why he left, but I also this he is a dick for not waiting one extra day at least to see me. He begged me to forgive him and it's like, how can I not? I forgive the ones I hate, so of course I will forgive the ones I love..BUT I'M STILL MAD.
But life moves on and tomorrow I will go out for the last time with my little cousin. Plaza Francia watch out!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Uruguay is coming to an end
My cousin and I met some American's two nights ago when we were returning from our dinner with our Uncle. We got to our hotel and decided we would try to score some free drinks at the bar with the guys who work there. I saw a couple guys and heard one speaking english so I asked if they were going to have a drink with us. They were just as stoked as I was that there was another english speaking person in the room. These guys, Brent and Alex, ending up being really cool and funny so my cousin and I accepted their invitation to hit the streets and go to a local bar called Moby Dick. We all sat at the bar and started drinking. Five drinks later, we were all stumbling out of the bar and yelling crazy things like, "no boom boom, just yum yum" and talking mad smack to thirteen year olds with 32 oz. in their hands. They dropped us off back at our hotel safe and sound. This is where the adventure starts. Now, keep in mind it is almost five in the morning and we are in a hotel with no food. I begged them for snacks and I got two slices of wonderbread. Delicious but not enough. I wanted cereal and yogurt and decided no risk was to great in order to get these delicacies. Running onto the street and heading towards the local supermarket called "Disco", a car drives by so I yell, "take us to the market!!!" Car pulls over, so we get in. It's ok, hitch hiking is relatively normal here. Well he takes us to the market and I grab a bunch of ceral and stuff, eat it all and go to sleep.
The next day, yesterday, my cousin and I went to the beach but left after twenty minutes because we were hungover, wanted water/nutrients and because there were way too many jellyfish shits in the water and I did not want my highlight of the vacation to be some kid squatting over me giving me the old golden shower to save me from the pain. Days and nights go pretty much the same here. Sun and fun followed by night time alcohol consumption. We headed back to the hotel to shower up for dinner with our uncle when the night started getting crazy. In the middle of my shower, my cousin starts yelling, "Boluda, the bathroom is flooding!" This bathroom flood was no joke. I don't mean the floor was wet or moist or some pussy water problem like that, there was a good two inches of water lapping againt the bathroom walls. On opening the door, we see that the carpet is sopping wet and reaches to about half the hotel room. Bar runs our into the lobby in her bikini yelling that our hotel room is flooding while I try to rinse the conditioned out of my hair as fast as humanly possible. Well Christian and Jorge come to our rescue and move us two floors up. It was a mess and Barbi's toothbrush got lost in the storm.
The Americans and us met up with a couple of the guys who saved us earlier and decided to go out. We crammed all six of us into a tiny piece of shit french Peugot that had techno blaring out of the speakers; and headed to "La Barra" which is a strip in Uruguay thats just bars. Everyone had on white shirts and none of us understood why. We ended up in the emptiest bar of the all, Indie Bar, and sat down outside where we could people watch. The man who served us looked like he used to be a cowboy. He had a pot belly and a white mustache which both really complemented the bottle of Sauza he was carting around and generously pouring into our glasses. I refused because Sauza is the devil and it will never touch my lips again. The whole evening went really well and the guys were all such gentlemen paying for everything and carrying my cousin on their backs because she cant walk in heels. We got back to the hotel and were all gonna go swimming apparently, but as we pull up the two dudes who work there say they gotta get going. This is when a car pulls up near us and my cousin says something like "oooo boys" so we walk hand in hand to this VW Golf and next thing we know we are all hugging and yelling into the night. Then we hear, "Bye!!" and look and it's all the guys that we had originally come with. What's going on?! Well they all left us because they got mad. Sucks for them. Bar and I left the guys in the car, saying that we didn't want them to come to the hotel with us and that they should just accept the few minutes of life they had with us. What do they do but show up fifteen minutes later at the hotel, where we were conveniently still in the lobby talking to our hotel friends. We fucking freaked. What were they thinking? Well the guy who worked there got them to leave when we gave him "help us" eyes so it all worked out. We headed up stairs at seven in the morning and slept until four in the afternoon because of the lack of sunlight. When we woke up, I realized how fucked up we had been to our American and hotel gentlemen escorts and started to feel bad. But it's ok because karma (plus vodka) made the world right by turning my GI tract into liquid. All is well that ends well.
Tomorrow I leave this country where people breathe money, at least during the summer, and head back to dirty BA for a couple days. Then it's home sweet home where I will get to sport my new $400 winter coat that my Uncle bought me. Now all I need is my Fred Perry shirt and I have achieved my clothing goals as of now.
I had to have one picture of me at the beach.