Obviously I've been too busy to keep up with this blog.
Good and bad thing.
Well. The night of Wednesday the 23rd of September, Cheryl, Alison, Hayley and I took off for Santiago. We took an overnight bus at 11 and got there a little after 5am.
We get to the terminal in Santiago and even though my mom gave me a general idea of where to go, we really didn't have the slightest idea.
Ended up we had to cross the street to the other side of the bus terminal to find a bus that would take us from the bus station in Santiago to the aeropuerto. Since those buses didn't run till 6:15 and our plane left at 8am, we just found a cab and took that, it might have even been cheaper than the bus we would've taken.
Get to the airport, get our tickets/boarding passes, decide not to go to Uruguay anymore since it would've cost us 60$ and thats half a plane ticket already and we had already paid.
We go through the place where our paper work is processed and realize we don't have our cedulas (cards that say we're chilean students for the time-being). They almost didn't let us leave, but thankfully we had started the registration process the week before and we merely needed to pick up the cards. Thus, they looked up our information and let us pass.
We get to Montevideo and are glad we decided not to stay there. The airport was a JOKE. We literally started laughing. There were 8 gates TOTAL. And we had to climb down onto the tarmac, it wasn't connected to the airport. We get into the building/structure and I'm looking for an Uruguayan flag for my host dad, when I realize there are exactly three stores in the entirety of the airport and none of them have flags nor anything Uruguayan. It was seriously so disappointing. I mean, I'm sure if we would've ventured out to Montevideo's downtown it could've gotten more interesting, but the airport didn't even have anything besides Uruguayan pesos. In which, those are my only souveniers.
Getting out of the airport in Buenos Aires, there is supposed to be someone waiting for us through the travel agency we used who has a taxi to take us to our hotel. Well theres only one woman holding a sign that says "Adison Fos" which we can only assume was meant to say "Alison Fox", one of the girls on this trip with us.
We climb into the classy cab and get a tease of the city as he drives us to our hotel.
Before we even settle into our rooms we meet with a woman who worked with our travel agent and she gave us some vouchers and coupons to use around the city. She also set up our City Tour for the next day. Gave us some maps and sent us on our way.
Dropped our stuff off in our rooms before we hit up the local grocery store to buy some food to keep in the rooms like fruit and bread. I think the best part of that night was the juice-box wine. They were grown-up juiceboxes (see facebook pictures, if those ever decide to upload). It was a relaxing night to blow off some steam of the stress of traveling.
Friday morning we wake up around 8 to take a bus tour at 9:30 of Buenos Aires. Though we could've seen what we saw ourselves, it was a good idea to go with the bus tour because then we more easily figured out how to navigate later. I think all of us fell in love with Buenos on day one.
After that we walked around to some sights that were close to our hotel, for instance, the street with all the shopping (Florida) and the obelisk. Walking by a theater, we saw tickets available for El Fantasma de la Opera (yes, the Phantom of the Opera) and decided to buy tickets for that night. After we bought our tickets we got a little dressed up and hit up Café Tortoni where the food and wine was spectacular. Not to mention the waiters were really formal and the place sparkled dispite it being a decently priced café. The sandwich I had was like gormet grilled cheese, deeeelicious.
After that, walked over the the theater to see El Fantasma and after that ended the night a little early.
To bed for now, To be continued...
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