Chuy or Chui

Monday August 4, 2014

The city of Chuy is quite unique.  It is a border city to Brazil.

You drive down one side of the street and you are in Chuy, Uruguay.  You drive down the other side and you are in Chui, Brazil!  No passports needed. They call it a "Free Zone".  You can buy things from the U.S. or anywhere else and not pay an import tax.

But, they can charge plenty of money if they want.  Check out these crazy prices!

$4.20 for a small bag

 

                  $25.50!  Not even Costco size!!

The play yard for the hotel

The church was easy to find from our hotel window

Our efforts today in finding the elders an apartment was another testament that God is watching over us here in the small country of Uruguay.  We had 3 apartments we found on the internet and wanted to go see. Of the three, one was an iffy, maybe.  The realtor had 1 that was really, really nice but it was a little pricey.  We were willing to go see it, so we set an appointment for 2 pm.  When we arrive at the realtor's office, he said that the price had gone up.  We repectfully declined.  Some people think that just because we are "the church", we will pay anything.  So as we were about to walk away, the realtor said he had one more house that wasn't on the market yet because it had a few more repairs and painting to be done.  He said he could show it to us.  PERFECT!   Location was good for all four elders.  Big and clean.  On a paved street! Close to shopping.  It is big enough for six elders, if need be.  What a nice blessing.

We left for Montevideo about 3 pm.  This drive was down the coast and once again different landscape that I had never seen.

We saw this structure way off in the distance as
we were driving and decided to check it out

Fort Santa Teresa

That little white dot by the flag is the moon.

Beautiful vistas.  Good place for a fort because
you can see for miles all around

The fort was closed today, so a picture through the
keyhole was all I could get of the inside

 

The back of the fort (in the background)

Our next point of interest was this lake: Laguna Negra
Very large lake.

This is a rural school just off the side of the road down
to the lake. It is in the middle of nowhere.
Very quaint.

Their playyard is made from barrels.

Our next stop was Punta del Diablo.
Here in Uruguay you have to turn right first, to go left.

Not sure I would want to rent this.

Selfie picture!

House boats for rent

Our drive to Montevideo was nice!
(at least until we got closer to the city of crazy drivers)