Uruguay – Daily Living

First stop after breakfast today and our long weekend day trips was laundry. This place is right near our hotel and they charge about $8 usd per load.

Next stop was to check grocery store prices and visit the nearby mall. The Disco grocer in this area is the cleanest and largest grocery store I’ve been to so far but it has all sorts of antsy clerks with non-sensical rules. For example, I went to the self-check out with a couple of items but my card wouldn’t work so I grabbed the items and headed back toward the manned check out lane but the clerk stopped me and said I couldn’t go back with the items. I explained my card wasn’t working so he went to the terminal and did something to get my card to work. Not sure where and what I was to do with the items if the card had failed again because evidently you can’t go back to the general store area.

At lunch time found a new burger place called Rudy’s Burgers and these have been the best burgers in Montevideo!

The picture doesnt do it justice because this stack barely fit in my mouth.

No “cubiertos” tax and let’s hope they keep it that way.

After lunch I walked the Punta Carretas mall but there wasn’t anything unique or spectacular about it. There is a movie theater, standard clothing shops, several optometry shops, and food court with many American chains: Burger King, McDonalds, Subway, KFC and a SBarro.

Movie theater experience….

Its cold and foggy outside so gonna watch the Man of Steel.