August Day Trip to Uruguay
One of the things we wanted to do while in Argentina was to take a ferry over to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay which is a UNESCO site built by the Portuguese in the 1600's. Its about a 75 minute early morning ferry ride over to the town and we were accompanied by Elder and Sister Huntsman the other MLS missionaries in the mission. The town is across the Rio Plata that Buenos Aires sits on as an inlet for the River into the Atlantic Ocean. We had lots of good views of the river looking towards Buenos Aires And some even better views of the lighthouse on the Point that Colonia del Sacramento sits on: Lots of 500 year old cobblestone streets, fun little shops, great restaurants cafes on the street sides, old cars turned into art and historical evidence of the struggle between the Portuguese and Spanish governments for control of South America. I see things like this and wonder at the history of all these cars and how they ended up on these streets. We ate at...