Whirlwind of Fun, part 1

This has probably been one of the BEST weekends (Fri-Sun) of my life!

Having a native Argentinean friend really has made A LOT of difference in how we've experienced BA...especially since our friend (MAggie) is super eager to show us everything the city has to offer both on the tourist track and on the native-track. Maggie's family consists of a ton of super artistically talented siblings, so Friday night (the 12th), she took us to her sister's Improv Tap show, in which another sister was singing and one of her brothers was the technical director. Her tapping sister is in a professional troupe and they were INCREDIBLE! I'd never seen an improv tap show before and it blew me away. SO much talent involved and SUCH a full body workout. I don't know how they were able to keep tapping so quickly and so emphatically for so long! The tap club had a very bohemian feel and it was very intimate but fun. One of those places that's really cool to go but you only know about if you're in the know. Everyone there was Argentinean and it was a cool atmosphere and way to spend our Friday night. Then after the show they played salsa music, so people randomly got up and danced. Of course I was on cloud 9 :D

Saturday, Tom, Jocelyn, and I took a day trip to Colonia, Uruguay, the oldest city in Uruguay and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. How baller is it that I can say I took a day trip to Uruguay! It's SO random! We took a fast ferry at 10 am, so we arrived an hour later. The historic quarter of Colonia is such a quaint, cute town- I really felt like I'd stepped back into time. Municipal elections are happening soon, so there were motorcades going up and down the main street of the town honking horns and waving signs to convince people to vote for their candidate. Cars, wagons, buses, you name it, drove by covered in signs or ads. Everything about it and where we were really made me feel like I was in some tiny American town in the 1950s. It was gorgeous and warm outside in Uruguay, so the three of us absolutely loved the day. It was so nice that we opted not to go into any of the museums, which everyone told us were really cool and different, and instead just wandered around outside all day. And I don't regret our decision. I wish I could describe in words how lovely Colonia was....anyway, great town + fun people + another passport stamp = MAJOR success.