Carnival begins

And so it begins 40 days of parades and lots of drums. I can hear the
drum beating away now, probably along the main road through the old
city, 18 De Julio.
As I walked to work I saw vendors setting up at Parque Rodo, handmade
crafts and lots of Virgin Mary stuff. Also saw someone selling little
Styrofoam boats that I gather is to light something up and set it
afloat, what I don't know.

Also saw another large cruise ship pulling into port and when I got off
work plenty of tourists strolling about.

Blog changes

I made a few blog changes as you can tell, added a new header image and
removed several of the widgets that I thought were just slowing down the
browser load time and not doing the blog any good anyway.

Book Corner - Finished Reading

Ambush Alley - The most extraordinary battle of The Iraq War
Author: Tim Prirchard
Paperback 343 pages

Absolutely a cannot put down book. Wow, what a tale. I had scene the
story on the History Channel but to read the stories gave me chills.
A must read.

Found the jetty on Google maps

Yes the water is brown :  (