Carrasco and a nice relaxing weekend

So later Saturday a group of us ended up going to Carrasco.  We hung out in the beach, played in the water, and it was awesome!  The water was a great temperature and was so much fun to play in!  I think it's more fun to play in a river like than than the actually ocean.  For me at least.  There are waves which are fun but you never feel like you're really fighting the water.  It's pretty nice and fun!  Carrasco is a really cool area too!  Not like normal Montevideo.  There are a lot of big houses and some are huge!  I guess it's kinda like a suburb style.  But really nice!  There are some houses are are average and then there are some fantastic ones.  It was about a 45 minute bus ride away but it wasn't bad and only was 20 pesos.  ($1)  We just went to the beach and walked around.  We thought about going out to eat there but it's kinda expensive so we headed back to Montevideo and found a restaurant before returning to Casa.  It was a whole lot of fun!!!  A great day!  I hope we can go out to the beach in Carrasco soon.  It's not as crowded.

Sunday we continued our church project and visited a Pentecostal church.  After church we changed and went to the feria.  It was so cool but unfortunately just about as soon as we got there it started raining so we went into a bakery that some people had already visited and really liked so we went and ate a cheap lunch!  And good!  After that I enjoyed a relaxing afternoon and then went to the church next door with a friend.  They were really happy to have us there and really friendly.  They talked to us a bit and one of the guys asked us if we knew "the yellow rose of Texas"

Oh and yesterday (monday) we watched Evita, in preparation for going to Argentina.  It was very interesting.

I guess that's all for now. Carnaval is going on so there are a lot of businesses close.  And bus schedules are weird but I don't think I'll have to worry about that but a friend of mine who lives in a different part told me she had some problems getting here because she couldn't find her usual bus.