The Adventure to Punta del Este

Javy, February 25, 2015

Yesterday we went on an adventure to Punta del Este.  From Atlántida to Punta del Esta was about an hour's drive in our car that we rented.  When we got there, we found a lucky parking space next to the beach.  We walked down and rented chairs and an umbrella.  Teo and I took off our shirts and ran into the water.  It was a hot day, so the water was refreshing.  The waves were at least two times taller than me.  Think of how tall your dad is.  If your dad is short, that wouldn't work.  One wave knocked me into the sand and I floated to shore.  It was fun, even through I got my breath knocked out.  Sometimes the waves were so big, I felt like a piece of trash.

We found a place where you can take surfing lessons.  Our mom asked us if we wanted to do a lesson.  It was a definite "yes"!  We put on our wet suits and put on a yellow shirt that showed that we were part of the class.  We did our stretches, talked about how to stand up, and we went into the water with our teachers.  There were some waves that were so big that I went flying.  The waves were so big that the teacher had to hold us so we wouldn't fall off of the board.  My teacher said I was a natural!  I surfed very well, not very many mistakes, and the funnest part was doing races.  A race is where both of the surfers line up and the teachers push us and we go rocketing, and we stand up and we see who can on stay on the board the longest.  I was never good at the races.  I won a couple times, and Teo won a bunch of times.    

I explored with my dad and we found some live jellyfish and some unfortunate dead ones.  They were in little pools in the rocks.  There were a bunch of small little crabs and some big ones that hid in the rocks.  We walked around for awhile and we found an ugly surprise.  It was a dead seagull that lost its head.  It was disgusting.

We walked a little more and a little more and then we found some clams.  I found a pretty cool snail shell, and then Teo found one, and then Dad found one.  Then we found some cool seashells.  After that we walked back to our mom, who was reading in the sun and getting tanner.   We packed up and rinsed off and walked to the car.  We put our stuff in the car and walked to a fancy restaurant near a bay.

We got dinner and looked at the sunset.  Our mom told us that during the fight for Uruguay's freedom, there was a ship with Spanish soldiers that wrecked in the water near where we were eating.  If the ship had made it to land, and the Spanish soldiers fought, then the whole Uruguayan history would have been changed.  Teo and I thought that the water was haunted with Spanish soldiers' ghosts.  When the tide came up,  I saw a figure in the water staring at me.  I ran back to shore and did not want to go near that water again.

We thought the day was pretty awesome.  We drove home and got into bed and slept well after our adventure.