Thu 25.3.2010 by Liz
We’re in Montevideo and I am now a year older. Yesterday was my birthday. It was a day with a lazy start, an indulgent breakfast of a mini birthday cake we bought at the supermarket bakery – eaten on the balcony in the sun of course– and a generally lazy day consisting of a long siesta and a dinner out at a restaurant on the fore-shore.
Our apartment we have is cool! It’s in an old building done up and decorated in a colonial style and we have this enormous balcony which you can see the foreshore from! It comes with deck lounges and umbrella – which the rope to open it broke on day one and we had to fix it in the rain….
We’ve been looked after quite well by Eduardo (the building manager guy) making sure we had everything we needed. He even took us out to a sea side town of Piriapolis one afternoon on his way to run another real estate errand. We kept him company the hour or so drive there.
We also were befriended by Keith, a friend of the landlord’s who happened to arrive the same day in the building as us. We met Keith as he was trying to help get the internet working – the modem was in our apartment. Later we joined Keith for many a discussion over breakfast (mmm…medialunas) and even joined him to watch Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland! – which I turned into an early birthday present from me to me.
I was so excited to see this Alice in Wonderland and I did enjoy it, even through the crappy 3D glasses they gave us. I think I was bracing myself for a let-down like I got with Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but Alice delivered a darker and more ‘adult’ feel which I was after – and also the fact the Alice was costumed wearing little wrist warmers and gloves, which I love ;)
Other than our impromptu trip to Piriapolis with Eduardo, we haven’t really done much. We’ve been waiting for the internet to get going, meanwhile trying to use the free wi-fi’s from surrounding establishments and hankering down into some offline work.
We foresee our stay in Montevideo (around 6 weeks) to be consumed with work and trying to learn some Portuguese before we head to Brasil, but so far, I like it already :)
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