Montevideo, Uruguay Again

I woke up this morning to a wonderful organic breakfast of homemade peach jam and homemade peach yogurt. I then headed out to walk around the city for a bit. I went and saw the Constitution Plaza and Independence Plaza. You could walk down below the statue in Independence plaza. Down there were two guards on each side of a glass box which contained an urn with the cities hero´s ashes. I don´t know the exact story but it has to do with war and how he lead them to their independence. The best part about going down there was investigating the guards. I felt like the people on tv who try to make the guards of the royal palace move. I culdn´t tell if these guards were fake or real. I got really close to see if they were moving and then i walked very slowly in a circle around each one. I believe one of them looked in my directions but i could be mistaken. I still have no idea if they were real people or not. I also visited an art museum. The art was nice but unfortunately i couldn´t read any of the descriptions of each painting due to th fact that they were in Spanish. I did enjoy 3 floors of his art and it varied due to the time period he had created it. Most of his art ranged from mid forties to early seventies. After leaving i headed back to the hostel for lunch. I still had some ham and cheese left so i made a sandwich. The frustrating part about the ham and cheese was that i don´t know how to ask for it sliced in spanish so this resulted in me receiving a hunk of ham and a hunk of cheese, haha! So i spent a great deal of time butchering the ham and cheese trying to get small pieces for a sandwich. After lunch i rented a bike and rode along the coast to a few of the beaches in Montevideo. The farthest beach i went to was about 2 miles away and slightly uphill. I definately got a work out in. The water was not the nicest here but the beaches we clean. The whole city was very clean compared to the other ones i have visited so far. By the time i got back from my bike ride i realized that i had forgot to put on extra sunscreen and had managed to burn my hands. I didn´t even know that you could do that. Fortuntely it was only a small burn and had went in by the next day.