Uruguay? What are we thinking?!

About a month ago, Steve stumbled across a vineyard for sale in Uruguay. Where you say? Uruguay... Is that the same as Paraguay? Nope. Go south, really south down to southern, South America. It's small, to the east of Argentina and below Brazil. Just up from where the penguins live!

So, a month later, we have plane tickets, a hotel room, a local contact, the date of the next ex-pat meeting and we're headed there on Friday to scout around a bit. Pet sitters are secured too - don't worry about Basia, Packer and Trinity! We'll be visiting many of the wineries there and seeing the places he's found for sale. And, we'll go to the next ex-pat lunch at Old Maz on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. (their time is only two hours later than ours, but it's winter there, not summer). You can check out Old Maz here:
http://www.oldmaz.com/english

Here's the winery link: http://www.uruguaywinetours.com/esp/visitenos.htm
They are re-doing the website right now and took down most of the English language information, but you can still wade through the pics and get the gist of why we think it looks pretty cool!

We'll be staying in Montevideo for the first few days and are most interested in the Canelones region at the moment, but who knows once we get there!

The excitement is building so I wanted to get a blog set up in hopes that we can work our way through the language barrier well enough to find an internet cafe and update it!

Pretty soon it will be 'adios mi amigos' for one fun week!

Buenos noches,
Marianna