My Birthday! We spent a wonderful day at Bodega Carrau´s Harvest Celebration, which consisted of a barbeque, wines, and traditional gaucho dancing. The girls brought me cupcakes and brownies, made with dulce de leche of course, and set me up to dance tango with the dancers. Afterwards we headed to Punta del Este, about a four hours drive from Montevideo. Punta del Este (East Point) is South America`s second most glamorous and exclusive beach resort after Bra...

We haven't left the vineyard in 2 weeks, and Katie and I are getting a little stir crazy so we decided to try to get a cab into town instead of waiting for someone to take us. It is Saturday night after all and tomorrow we get to sleep an hour later We asked Jose Luis in our simple Spanish if he could call us one. This seemed to confuse him, he didn't understand why we wanted to go to town, and we think he said he would call one. Sure enough an hour later, Bru...

When we are not busy with work we have to find ways to entertain ourselves. I study and practice Spanish on the porch which overlooks the vineyard, or take rides on the tractor. We added playing with numchucks to our activities as Jaille brings them to work. Jaille is Brazilian so he speaks Portuguese, of which I speak none, but somehow Katie and I communicate with him pretty well. He is ridiculously strong and always helps Katie and I when we need it. He lives ...

A normal days diet here consists of a lot of meat, rice, bread, and wine. Despite being on a farm, they just don't have a lot of love for vegetables. Because of this Katie and I decided to add jogging to our day of manual labor to offset the effects of a meat and wine diet. Since by the end of the 11 hour day, we are less motivated, we decided to start getting up at 6:30 to jog unfortunately in the pitch black, as we are in the country and it's dirt roads and ...

Life on the Bodega is so simple. Im living in a little house, with a kitchen, living room, bathroom, a bedroom where Katie and I sleep, and a darling little porch that overlooks the vineyards and farm. Aside from Katie, our room mates are a family of little frogs that hide behind our kitchen counters and jump out and scare me whenever I'm not expecting it, or jump on us when we are sleeping, a large spider I named Charlotte who is very shy and never comes down fr...