New Year's Eve

On New Year's Eve Ludmila and Mish go to a booking office to try and get a ferry ride to Colonia, a lovely resort city in Uruguay which turned out to be a waste of time while Jerome and I went with Gerda to book for New Year's Eve at the Montana Argentinian Grill.

We met up and wanted to go to the Museum of Fina Arts but it was closed till Sabado (Saturday) so we went and had an excellent late lunch at an Italian Restaurant nearby. We didn't want to venture too much as it was spitting and we feared some rain to come.

Got back to the apartment around 16:00 to ready for New Year's Eve. Arrived at the restaurant at 21:00 to find it quite empty but no worries by 22:30 it was 'completo'. The entertainment was a solo singer who did a mixture of Latin American numbers (great) and Ricky Martin and Elvis covers (not his forte). The dinner comprised a choice of salads or sausages for entree, a sirloin, rib or chicken for main and mousse or cheesecake for dessert - which was all fine for the type of occasion.

Ludmila as is her want looked around and honed in on a young lady sitting by herself at an adjoining table. She speculated that the lady was a lady of the night and we had some discussion on ths matter. Ultimately Ludmila started talking with her to discover she was a 23 year old Columbian tourist who was left stranded by her tour company and had decided to come to this restaurant. Anyway she joined us for the remainder of the meal and left with Danielle and Mish at 00:30 to go clubbing till they got home at 04:00.

Gerda was in the swing of things dancing and yes of course drinking. We walked home or in the case of some of the Stern females sort of stumbled home although they swore the next morning that they were totally sober - yeah yeah.

More later

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