Buenos Aires and Soccer

So I'm back home and it's 12:05 here in Montevideo and "i like go far places BA". Thank you Aaron for that. Anyway, so much has happened since I last updated I'll just work backwards.

This last weekend we went to Buenos Aires and there is really not way to accurately describe the city as a whole but I'll try. We got there Thursday night and rode by bus to our hotel, the Posta Carretas. We took a charter-style bus from Montevideo to Colonia del Sacramento and then a ferry to Buenos Aires. We got dinner and went to bed and woke up early for our guided tour of Buenos Aires! Our tour finished at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires and was followed by free time. For our free time, me, Earl, Arianna, and Jade walked back from the mall across the length of Buenos Aires. It was exciting and we got a good look at the city, but it took an hour and a half to make it to the hotel! We took a brief nap and went to see a Tango show displaying the history and evolution of Tango in Argentina and the world and it was outstanding!!
Curfew was 2am, and Cindy, Jessica, Abby, Tanner, Aaron, and I still wanted to stay out and see the city and we were looking for something cool to do and one of the hotel workers directed us to an Irish Pub in Buenos Aires! We looked really cool when we ordered a round of Cokes for the table, lol! We enjoyed live music that was half the best of the 70s-90s and half spanish music.
The next morning we went to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Art Museum) for our Latin American Art and Culture class and stayed there until we went to lunch. As a side note, some of the best Italian food I've eaten was in Buenos Aires. We got a change of clothes and went and spent the rest of the evening with a local youth group and went to their Saturday night Bible Study to meet some local Porteños (people from Buenos Aires). We traveled by Subte (subway) all the way across the city. We finished the night by playing soccer with them at a local rec center. We divided up the teams with some Americans and Argentines mixed together so it wouldn't be too lopsided... we all slept well that night. The next morning we again took el Subte to the Church for church and met the 60 study abroad students from Pepperdine University in California and spent the rest of the day with with until 6:30 when we left, caught the bus at Colonia del Sacramento, and rode the bus back to Montevideo. It's weird now because when we get here it feels like home.

Before we left we went to a World Cup Qualifier soccer game, Uruguay vs Ecuador and it was AMAZING!!! I posted the pictures, and they show crowd shot, but it was nothing short of incredible when we all walked out onto the stands and saw the field for the first time surrounded by 50,000 Uruguayans out to support their team. They ended up tying, 0-0 which was depressing, but the whole experience was exciting and completely worth it.