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Day 11; can{t find the colon or the apostrophe so i{m just going to use thee}¿¿}}se. shoot. now i can{t find the backspace. anyway; Day 11; last day in punta del diablo. decided to take one last beach day, relaxing never gets old. so, we rented two surf boards and a boogie board. the surf was rough today so it was pretty exhausting just getting out far enough to catch the waves.

in the evening, we hopped on a bus for Cabo Polonia. Cabo is a national ecological reserve in uruguay. no cars, electricity, or running water. we had to take a giant death mobile into the park, it was wicked fun. we rode on the roof of this thing as it drove through dunes and forests in the pitch black of night. eventually, it popped out onto the beach and we drove along (and sometimes through) the edge of the water. when it finally stopped, we were in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by thirty shacks with waves breaking in the background. we proceeded to find the woman with whom we were staying, and she guided us back to our cabaña. we roasted hotdogs over a space heater for dinner. best meal ever. our room was a tiny, with several beds, but we all slept together because it was freeeeezing, and there was no heater or fire.

Day 12; when we woke up, we were in a natural wonderland. cabo polonia is out on a peninsula. there were sea lions playing on the rocks and birds aplenty. we hiked through the endless sand dunes and played on the coast, then headed back to the center of town. we caught a death mobile out of town, then hopped on a bus back to montevideo. once back in the terminal, we bought tickets to salto. next, we left on an overnight bus to salto.

Day 13; Woke up on the side of the road in Salto at 6 am. We found our hotel in the dark and we had to wake up the owner to get into our room. We slept for a while and then went to the termas that Salto is famous for, which are hot springs. People honestly walk down the main strip of town in water shoes and bathrobes. They have a complex of outdoor and indoor swimming pools and kiddie stuff that was all pumped in hot spring water. Only 2 dollars to get in and it was a really fun afternoon. I didn't realize that my swimsuit would be on the more conservative side here. Women here wear Brazilian cut bikinis, moms and pregnant women included. We we wondering what the word for wedgie was in Spanish, haha. We wandered through a small bunch of artesan shops on the street. For lunch, Greg and I shared a chivito, which is a very common dish here. It consists of a mountain of fries with two thin steaks on top, covered in ham, pancetta (like bacon), lettuce, tomato, and fried eggs on top. They put fried eggs on everything here. It was really good but I'm sure my arteries are clogged now. We bought sandwich stuff at a mercado and again cooked dinner over a space heater. We're pretty good at that now. We had a super chill evening watching Shallow Hal and eating alfahores, which are a popular cookie/cake thing here that we eat all the time.

Day 14; Almost stayed for another day in Salto to see a dam and get hot spring massages, but we decided to start heading towards Iguazu instead. We took a boat across the Uruguay/Argentina border to a town called Concordia. Wandered around there for a while, got some helado, checked out a church, and got bus tickets to Puerto Iguazu. After a bus dilemma (cama or semi-cama?) we hopped on a twelve hour overnight bus ride, which turned out to be not bad at all. We actually ran into a guy from the hostel in Punto del Diablo who kept us entertained.

Day 15; This morning concluded our bus ride to Iguazu. Twelve hours really do fly by when youre having fun. We walked from the bus station to our new hotel for the next couple of days. One room for the three of us with television and a private bath for about $8, were living like kings. We ate breakfast at the hotel which consisted of cake, cookies, and other sugary breads. We may be mistranslating the spanish word for desert as breakfast. Afterwards we all got in a couple hours of naptime and then headed off for Iguazu National Park. Iguazu was incredible, its really hard to describe it in words so we will let pictures speak for themselves when we get back. Something to be noted about Iguazu though is that it looks just like Jurassic Park minus the velociraptors.. Well we did bring in Melissa hahaha. Only kidding. We stayed in the park until near close snapping pictures and taking in the sheer magnitude of it all, then went to get some dinner and soon well be calling it a night.

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