Mueso del Mar

Teo, April 16, 2015

Three days ago, Javy and I and our mom went to Punta del Este for our surfing lesson.

After we were done, we got on a bus at the bus terminal and drove over an undulating bridge over to a town called La Barra.  It was very fun going over the bridge. (Photo from Wikipedia is here.)

We went to a gift shop to ask directions to a museum called Museo del Mar. The man who told us directions also let us keep our backpacks at the gift shop because we were going to have to walk a mile there and back. When we got to the museum, we walked through the door and we thought it was pretty cool because there were so many things to look at. Javy was kind of scared of a big stuffed sea lion.

We saw a moon fish, and we watched a little video that was in English about coral reefs and the animals there. We saw lots of shells and creepy old postcards. One showed a guy with nails in his head, and it said "Santa Maria." There were four big whale skeletons and there was a pirate room where there were lots of pirate things and some model pirates. The museum had about a thousand different things.  It was very fun to look through.

We crossed the road to the insectarium and we went inside. We saw thousands of bugs all in cases lining the walls. We saw preying mantises, scorpions, and butterflies, but mostly beetles. It was pretty cool to look at.

Then we walked back to the gift shop to get our bags. We got on a bus and it was fun going over the bridge again. When we got to the bus terminal, we got tickets for the bus home and bought sandwiches for the road. We got on the bus and sat for an hour or so. The bus dropped us off in Atlántida. Then we walked home and went to sleep after a big day.