It's been a bit of whirlwind but there's been a lot of action here in the last few days. The following is a Peter Gammons inspired notebook of the highlights.
Friday Night: Fun night out barhopping with some friends that culminated in an always amazing feast of wine, grapes and strawberries
Saturday-Sunday: Spent the weekend at the coastal town of Valaparaiso. This is a very old city with a ton of historical architecture and culture. It's also a vibrant shipping port with tons of seafood restaurants to capitalize on all the fresh catch. I may or may not have gotten pickpocketed on Sunday...luckily my money was not in my wallet at the time, so when the wallet was returned...well we'll never know
Sunday night: We bought three pirated DVDs for $1.70 US each and only got to watch one! We were sitting down to get started when all of a sudden, we heard incredibly loud screaming coming from outside. Sticking my head out, I was amazed to find that it was coming from all over the city. With it being Dia del Joven Combatientes and protests around town, we thought that might be the cause. After turning on the TV though, we found out that it was the entire city freaking out because Chile had just taken the lead over Peru in a World Cup Qualifying game! We watched this game for the next 90 minutes and everytime a big play began, you'd start to hear the cheering again. I can't wait to go to a game in person here becuase it was one of the most amazing sports experiences of my life. Really really cool.
Pictures to follow :)
Monday, March 30, 2009
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Tom and I are trying to catch up with "Caitlin and Scot's excellent adventures" and enjoying your info and experiences. You are doing a wonderful job with the blog. Lots of info. We will have to do some reading on Chile, and who knows, we might make it down. Tom is now interested in a class at RPI and went up their to talk about wood stoves(3rd world types) He is interested in going to Peru with them this fall.I will close as I'm not clear how to post this
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