PHOTOS DEL ESTE

Punta del Este! 

Woo quite the weekend.

Basically Thursday night at midnight to 5pm/midnight Saturday, depending on who's counting. 

Punta, for those not in the know, is pretty much the primo, numero uno beach resort in South America.  Along with that, it's the most expensive.  No worries though, we pulled off quite the bargain-bin weekend.

First off, we went, well, this weekend.  The first weekend of the off-season, and pretty much one of the quietest of the year.  Everyone, literally everyone, from Buenos Aires vacates the city for the months of january and february because it's just too damn humid.  Like New Orleans in August, which, according to Michelle is exactly what it's like.  So everyone vacates the city for Punta del Este.  Kinda like the redneck riviera, a la Dauphin Island, but well, kinda more like the ACTUAL French Riviera.  

So we took the BUQUEBUS, or actually, if you ask me, the BUSQUEBUS (Properly pronounced boose-Kay-boooooose).  It's a really fantastic company that runs the giant grey's anatomy-seattle-batman-the-dark-night-actually-like-the-climactic-scene-off-navy-pier-with-the-joker ferry boat that crosses over the Rio de la Plata to Uruguay, and then runs a bus 4 hours down the coast to punta del este.  

We hopped off the bus at 6:30 and then... well... I think it might just be easier to show you.

 

Okay, slight back track.  This was the ferry boat.  With my eight amigos.

 

This right here is me.  Pre-tan.  Her right there is Amanda, the brains behind this excellent weekend.