Yesterday was the 3 month trip to Uruguay that everyone who travels to Buenos Aires has to take. Upon entering the country you are given a three month visa, and so since most of us from the class arrived at the same time, it was time for us to go. Out trip ended up being Ayla, Julia and me, with Heather and her parents also taking the same boat, Tom, Chris and Hans had to go earlier because they had entered the country about a week earlier than any of us. We left from the terminal at 10 and took the hour long boat trip to Colonia across the Rio Plata. The river, which is pretty close to the ocean is very brown and the morning was cloudy, so the day wasn't looking so good. By
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