Montevideo vs Buenos Aires

Today we took a guided bus tour of Montevideo to compare to our guided tour of Buenos Aires. Our conclusion is that everything that Montevideo has going for it is bigger, better, and flashier in Buenos Aires. Everything except the Chivito (the Uruguayan hamburger) of course! We toured the old city, some of the major parks and historic sights, we saw a few of the old cemeteries containing graves dating to the 1500s and up to WWII. Our tour took most of the day and a few of us ended it by walking down to a local "feria" (a fair type set up) so I could look for soccer jerseys and some other stuff. On our way home we stoped at a little cafe for Empanadas and watched about 20min of a soccer game. That's how life has gone here in South America most of the time, with only essays to interrupt that flow of time. We also submitted our fall break travel ideas to a travel agent here so she could come up with approximate costs for the trips.