Still in Uruguay

We awoke before the sun came up to jump on another bus and head down to the capital city of Montevideo. I lucked out with my seat and got the very first row of the upstairs, next to Hannah. It was nice because there was a little more legroom. Hannah and I had a nice conversation for the first few hours, then we rested for the next few, listening to music or looking at my photos I had taken. We arrived in Montevideo around 1pm, got cleaned up, then headed out at 2pm to get some lunch and walk around the city a bit. The city clearly has a European influence to it but is obviously on another continent. But if I didn't know better, I'd say I was in Europe. The architecture is quite nice, but it's busy and we were warned that some of it is not safe. After eating lunch (another Chivitos for me... and 6 other people as well), we walked around the city for about 30 minutes then grabbed a cup of coffee at a nearby shop before heading back to the hotel to rest up before dinner. I almost missed it completely when I fell asleep and awoke at 8:28pm and we were supposed to meet at 8:30. Luckily the group was just playing games and drinking downstairs in a little lounge. We ended up staying in and playing games and ordering pizza (not very good pizza BTW) until 11 when the girls decided they wanted to go out. The boys said fine, we'd go out as well and went to get a round of beers while the girls went to a club down the street. We played a little prank on them though when the guy selling roses came by and we bought 1 rose for them and told him to say it was from a "secret admirer". 20 seconds later, I look up and the guy is pointing to our table. LOL! But their reply was "you cheap asses. You bought 1 rose for all of us?!?" Sheesh. But the guys shared a drink then found out Amanda wasn't feeling well so agreed we'd walk her back to the hotel since we'd have to cross a bad area to get back. On the way back, Thom and I were bringing up the rear of the group, probably 15 yards back when a girl asked Thom for a cigarette. Barbara had warned us not to stop for anyone and definitely do not give money to anyone, under ANY circumstance. Thom and I walked past the girl and as we were walking by she yelled out "I suck you!" Anywhere else, a blowjob for a cigarette is probably a good deal, but I was suspicious so I turned my head slightly to the side to see 3 guys slowly moving up behind us. I pushed Thom ahead and increased our pace to catch up to the rest of the group. I'm pretty sure that was a set up. If we had stopped, we would have been mugged or jumped. I'm guessing they probably had knives since rule #1 of fighting is you never get into a fight with someone bigger than you and I was bigger than all 3. After that, I kept myself aware of my surroundings for the rest of the trip. Thom actually saw someone get mugged right outside of our hotel! In broad daylight! With people around!!! I went to sleep knowing we finally had a free day the following day to hang out in Montevideo, see the city, or just sit around and do nothing. Not bad options all around. I decided I'll make up my mind when I get up.