Our first and only visitor! Welcome, Chris!
During our stay here in Santiago, we had only one person promise and actually commit to coming to visit us here- Adam’s bro. Welcome to Santiago, Chris!!
Shortly after his arrival from the airport, we came back home and cooked some breakfast/lunch and packed our bags. We had gotten a car and wanted to show him a different place that we enjoyed in Chile, besides Santiago. So we drove towards the coast once again and stopped in Valparaiso- one of our favorite places. We checked into the hostel and headed out to sight see. One thing Adam and I had never tried in our trips to Valpo were the famous funiculares. These are essentially street elevators that lift you from the lower street to a higher neighborhood built above. Since Valpo is set on a very steep hill, these funiculares are very essential (sometimes required) to get to and from the higher housed neighborhoods on the hills. We walked around for quite a while observing the views of the ocean, big tanker ships on the water, the colorful buildings and the street markets of the weekend. After all of that, we decided to sit down for an “adult beverage” as Chris would call it, and chill out.
We stopped at this hole in the wall place where I accidentally ordered “liter” beers for the three of us, thinking that was similar to what a pint may be. Yep, not even close. I think I need to go back to elementary school and re-learn the metric system. So it took a little longer than just a few minutes in this shady bar to finish our practical pitcher beers, but we did it. Right after that it’s back to the hostel for a nap, time to get ready and head out to the club. We went to a club that Adam and I had checked out a few weeks prior, called “el Huevo.” Yep. For those of you that know a little bit of Spanish, the club was called, “the Egg.” Interesting. But very fun.
The next day, we took a drive up the coast to one of our favorite lunch time spots. After a few empanadas, we drove on. Just a few minutes later we were parked near the ocean side climbing out on some large rocks placed along the ocean. What a beautiful view!! What we didn’t know was that a whole afternoon of terrible surprises would be ahead of us…
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