easter in south america

So we have had a change of plans, (not that we had any plans) we have decided to stay in montevideo, uruguay until tomorrow. Many things are shut down for the holiday and many people are traveling so it is extremely difficult to get rooms. Yesterday we hired a van and driver and toured the countryside, we were gone from the hotel from 10 to 10 and in the van most of that time. We went to Periapolis and also Punta del Esta (bridge of the east) the second town is the beverly hills of uruguay, it was quite spectacular - the homes and such were crazy big and the view of the ocean from the town was awesome! I find it very strange to have a town such as that only miles from villages that are so far behind. We had lunch in Punta del Esta and a restaurant right on the ocean, it was beautiful! As we have said before Conrad is a perfect traveler, but he has recently gotten some type of restaurant phobia - he cant sit still for the life of him and has to throw very large fits from the time we enter the restaurant until we leave. It has been trying :) But I figure if that is his only down fall in all this traveling then we can deal with it, we have just been taking turns and walking with him during all the ordering and waiting and then crossing our fingers that he will eat nicely when the food arrives. Yesterday, we also visited a museum of a world renowned artist´s home, the museum is called "casapueblo", I cant even give it justice with words so perhaps if you are interested you could google it and check it out, or wait for us to return with pics. Abbie and I worked for hours the other day and finally did figure out how to get the pics on the computer here at the hotel but it was taking forever for them to download on the blog so we had to stop, we had tried for over 30 minutes and still nothing had downloaded??? We have hired the van and driver again for tomorrow and will be heading west, we will be staying at buenos aires argentina tomorrow night and then from there to paraguay. We made friends with a lady that runs the hardware store here, she is from new york and has been here for 27 years, she has given us some pointers in our travels. She also taught us the art of the yerba mate, we got our supplies from her and our in the process of curing our cup, but we are getting it figured out and as soon as we do we will fit in better here in uruguay - cause everyone is walking around with their yerba mate and thermos. I hope this post finds you all well, love to all - Lela