La bomba, new years and a sky filled with paper

Feliz año nuevo people!

So, you see? I am getting better at this. So it's like only a couple of days since I wrote you the last time, but I remebered a lot of stuff that I forgot and new things (obviously) happened!

So first of all we went to Tigre, a place north of Buenos Aires, which is like a city in water. All the houses are build on 'sticks' and there's water EVERYWHERE (how lucky can people be with an all natural swimming pool in their backyard?) So we went there and walked in the jungle-kindof and we actually got lost and chose the wrong path but it didn't matter really.. It was just some more adventure added to the whole trip. One silly thing was just that most of the trails were filled with water because the water was high, so you couldn't really see where you were walking. This ended up with me falling into the woody-gross-water because suddenly there was a BIG invisible hole in the middle of nowhere.. kind of sucky, but luckily it was a hot day and no terrible thing happened!

Then we did some preperations for new years and this day the sky was filled with paper, or like peices of paper were flying around the air and it was so strange, but such an amazing sight and we didn't get what was going on at all. We went through the city and from every building people were throwing tons of paper out the window and it was everywhere in the air and on the street. I loved it, and it seriuosly just looked like something from a movie. Later we were told that it was because it was the last work day of the year and then they celebrate it with throwing out all the paper they don't need anymore or something. Such a nice and messy and great way to celebrate it!

So it was new years! Going from 2008 which was GREAT to 2009 which will, if possible, be even better. New years were really good, we had a grrreat dinner in the appartemen in San Telmo, made some new years calls to home, and then at around 23.00 we went to the appartement in Palermo where we had a BIG party.. It was good and we jumped into the new year, drank a lot of champagne and had a blast. Later we suddenly found ourselves in a big park somewhere in Buenos Aires with music and a lot A LOT of dancing people. So weird and wonderful!

On january 1st we slept until 17 and did nothing all day. So nice! Or, we went for a walk along the harbour, ordered tickets to go to Uruguay and THEN just did some more nothing (I guess we really needed it!)

SO - today we are going to Uruguay for the weekend. Just to stay by the beach and see some of Montevideo and the rest of Uruguay, it will be nice - I'm sure and I can't wait for the beach!

Now it is less than one week left of Argentina and I will go enjoy it.
Hope all is good and that no one got hurt New Years
Miss you all
Tess