Today was an interesting day to say the least. It began around 9 am when Amber and I managed to crawl out of bed and into a hot shower (we are sure to not take that for granted as we wont have them everywhere along our trip). Then Amber checked her email/facebook/myspace/crack-dealer to see that apperantly it snowed in Moscow this morning. Now how, I wonder, does it snow in the summer in Idaho but here in the winter it was 65-70 degrees and not a cloud in the sky?!?!? I guess Big Bird has blessed us...
Amber and I missed breakfast at our hostel so we hopped on the metro and headed to el Mercado Central or so we thought. We stepped into a quasi-grocery store and bought sliced turkey and bread for something in our stomach. We then bought some delicious bananas and some clemintines (you know this girl loves her clemintines). We sat in front of the Mercado Central, which we finally found, and ate the turkey and bread. Surprisingly, it was so freaking delicious!
Then we took an altered version of Lonely Planet´s walking tour of Santiago. We walked from the market to Plaza to Plaza, taking various pictures. We walked by the river, which turned out to be a little dirty. Actually it was quite gross! Then, we stopped in a small park to read our books and write in our journal for a little while. While there policemen on horseback rode by. There is definitely a sense of security around this city.
Our favorite area today was Santa Lucia Park, of which there are a ton of pictures attached. Amber looked at me and said "we´re going to the top, right?"...and so we did. There were lots of stairs but as you can see from the photos, it was an amazing view! We climbed a lot of steep stairs and it was way harder coming back down but it was worth it. We saw a rock that Charles Darwin had signed which was kind of cool.
During our day trip today, we came upon a few realizations about Chile.
1. Their accents suck. They speak such fast spanish, with lots of slang, and combined words that its almost impossible for either of us to understand them. When getting on the metro today, I asked a woman how to get to the yellow line and she told us. After she was done speaking for about 2-3 minutes, I looked at Amber and said "did you get any of that?" "No." I managed to get "go down the stairs and take the stairs at the end of the row up to the train". I know our spanish may be rusty, mine more than Ambers, but it still is really difficult to understand the Spanish here. We are both looking forward to our further travels and hoping to understand more!
2. Santiago is a very horny city. There are so many couples making out its disgusting. Every where we looked, there was some French kissing. Maybe they ought to rename it Chilean kissing. Uffff.
3. This is definitely a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggg city. The people on the street act as I would assume New Yorkers do; they are on a mission. There is no "bubble" of personal space to speak of and everyone seemed to be fast paced. Amber and I are more used to a tranquilo pace of life.
Amber and I can´t wait for another day to be this perfect! We hope you enjoy the photos!
Love and miss you all!
K&A
P.S. Click on the photos to see the whole picture!
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