And what a mountain she is.  I am, of course, talking about the Andes.  When flying over the Andes from Montevideo to Santiago, they force you to put on your seatbeats.  Mainly because of unexpected turbulence, but Air Canada doesn’t force it when flying over the Rockies.

I suspect it’s because of how high, and how close you are to the Andes.  Also the Andes have the highest point – 7,000m in South America.  You can’t really tell in the pictures I post below, but we are pretty close, and they are quite jagged mountains, and also possibly weather related.  These are from just slightly higher than 11,000 meters high in the sky.

Two other stories, some of these you may have heard about, one documented in the movie, Alive:

• The Andes Survivors
• A story about a British Caledonian flight on it’s way to Santiago

It’s you’re night to get up and dance Uruguay!

As described at this blog:

Noche de la Nostalgia is a night to stay out late and have fun dancing to the music clichés of the past. Some Noche de la Nostalgia classics are Total Eclipse of the Heart (1983) by Bonnie Tyler and YMCA by the Village People.

Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s Eve all come during the summer in Uruguay. Noche de la Nostalgia provides a holiday celebration to look forward to during the middle of winter.

I’m not sure what my plans are for tonight.  I’ve been, once again, a bit of a hermit here in Uruguay, and I almost wonder how easy it would be to get a taxi tonight to go to a bar right in Montevideo.  In some respects, I wish I had a car, but we know how that worked out, down here – and with a bunch of people partying, etc…

That said, I do hear the police are WAY strict on drunk driving down here – and that is a good thing, given how people drive here.