Chad Writes Stuff

Woke up at 8am today and decided to go down and write in my journal and enjoy some coffee.  I at a great (free) breakfast with ham and cheese on break and some delicious fruit and some pineapple.  I wrote in my journal for a while and was joined by some other members of our group.  I sat with them and listed to all their stories and jokes.  I laughed and I live. We decided to walk around town and go to the Ramblas to see the beaches in Montevideo.  We ended up going in side the "Mercado del Puerto" which was featured on "No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain".  We didn't eat because we were stuffed but there was so much food and such a great aroma coming from this place, that I wanted to devour the meats and have an ice cold beer to wash it down with, but I didn't. We walked down the the Ramblas Francia, which turned into Rambla Bretana, and became Rambla Republica Argentina along the Rio de la Plata.  It was a long walk and the water was definitely mu...

I woke up early today and walked the streets of Colonia.  I snapped some great photos of the town.  I want to start taking photos of people, but I would have to do it discretely.  Sometimes people say so much about an area just do to the facial expressions and emotion.  I stopped at a hostel on the main street and had a pastry and some coffee.   I went back to the hotel and finished packing at about 8:30.  I walked back into town and had breakie with the group (for those of you that don't know, i call breakfast, 'breakie") at about 9:30 and then at 11:30 Noah Jake and I walked to an internet cafe.  They wanted to check emails, sports scores and update people on their whereabouts.  I had done all that on the free wifi at the hotel so i was good. At noon, I decided to walk back to the hotel.  We grabbed our packs and jumped into taxis and arrived at the bus station.  We had some time to kill so we kicked the ball around for a bit.  W...