Santiago!!

What an amazing city was Santiago, or so we thought for the 24 hours we  were there... We hadnt planned on stopping in Santiago but  little did we know last weekend was a holiday weekend and bus lines were sold out everywhere!  We stayed at a fricken sweet hostel, so many people from all over the world!!     We met some folks from Europe, the States, South Africa and South America...  we had arrived early Friday morning, checkin in and our room was yet to be ready so we decided to hit the ciitty!! Elvis had told us there was a huge statue of jesus... or so he thought... up on a hill over looking Santiago, after being on a bus for 34 hours...yes 34... we were totes for a hike... and this hike  ended up being wayy harder then i thought, I   got poison ivy, but Dominic  fixed it quick with some aloe vera! thank jesus for aloe vera, oh and the statue was definitly not jesus, it was a women... virgen Mary haha...oh Elvis!     



                                                                                    (Cut out brits Head in this one haha Sorry Brit)

We didnt spend much time at the top of the mountain, we were both mucho hambre ...aka very hungry ... so we set on foot for some good chilean food, after being sick of eating seriously chips, cookies and hamburgers for days.blah. We  stumbled upon a sweet little market area that was so far out of the tourist trap and ate at a shanky lookin place, but weve heard that hole in the wall places are totes stelar! and it was! but im so confused as to what chilean food actually consists of, we had lentils and rice... hmmmm. but it was good none the less and the first real meal we had had in days!  we spent the rest of day wandering the city, we met several strangers so  eager to speak English which was refreshing and at night our hostel hosted a barbeque! Again we indulged on what didnt seem to be Chilean food, more like american barbeque food, but hey cannt complain plus they served free wine...and man let us tell you the wine goes down waaay to wonderful here hehe. A bunch  of people went out dancing that night but Dominic and I had to get up around  5 am to catch a bus so we hit the hay early... 6 am the next morning we hopped on another 16 hour bus ride south to Puerto Montt!