music, fútbol, sex: universal languages?

So la boca juniors won the fútbol against tigre which is good! Except we missed the match waiting for our bus to Posadas. Last night the bus station was sooo busy. We met some other aussies been waiting for their bus for 2 hours!! The station was packed out and buses were waiting in line to come in, they were all late. Luckily ours was only an hour late.
We went to Montevideo the other day (monday? i can´t remember), the capital of Uruguay. A bit of a ghost city, looks like there used to be a whole lot of stuff going on there aout 100 years ago but now all the buildings are decrepit and falling down. I bought a violin there from an old man in an old bandoneon shop. He wanted $300US but I managed it for $275US, case and bow included...Also, Josh, being a numbers man, has been very handy for doing quick currency coversions and helped me save $$ for the violin. Bow is not so good but in terms of a violin (sounds ok, def gd for price) it´s still a bargain but still my budget is suffering because of it. I think I´ll really need to skimp on meals etc soon...do a lot of cooking and such.
Yesterday we went back to Buenos Aires in order to get a bus here and I almost got pickpocketed! There was a man and a woman and they started walking really close in a busy area. Suddenly, the woman went in front of me and bent over to ¨pick something up¨ and so I bumped into her. Meanwhile, the man, jacket slung over his arm to cover his hand, dipped his hand into my bag!! Luckily, my wallet etc was buried inside my bag so he didn´t get anything. Phew. It was pretty obvious what they were doing, but I didn´t realise until the guy was taking his hand out of my bag. If I had better language skills I would have yelled at him.
Also I bought the sheet music to Piazzolla´s tango fugata! It´s got all 5 parts, violin, piano, bandoeon, cello, guitar, so I´m hoping to do something with it when I get back! They looove Piazolla over here, sell his CDs in souvenir shops etc. It´s the whole tango thing. Guys this is my gift to band. Matt, I hope drums will go with it-I´m sure we´ll work something!
So Christmas for us will be a 5 hour bus ride to Iguazu falls! But I´m not too fussed, I like the bus rides, they give me time to think and do nothing. I´m very much looking forward to Iguazu as well. From here (Posadas, Argentina), we can see Paraguay across the river! There´s a huge bridge connecting it and our hostel is right around the corner. It´s cool but very tropical weather, rain, also the roof to our room is leaking in 3 places, but no big deal! So feliz navidad everyone!! x