Today is our last day in Chile. We got in from the party last night at about 5:00AM, and I slept in until about 12:00PM. We packed in the ‘morning’ until 1:00PM, when we went to our last lunch together. We went to Pueblo Rico, which is a Chilean-food restaurant that we have walked by almost every day these past 2 weeks. They had a special today: we could get beef, chicken, or pork ‘a lo pobre’ (with sunny-side-up eggs and onions on top) and a drink for a reduced price. The food was delicious, and it was a good way to have our last meal.
After lunch we rushed back to the hotel to get all of our stuff together and to clean up the hotel. The upstairs lobby was a bit of a mess after the night before; we had tried to finish off all of the extra snacks Chris had bought us over the week, and we had gone to McDonalds at 4:00AM. We managed to get the majority of it cleaned up, but we ended up leaving some foodstuffs that we did not want to have to check at customs in the airport.
We got to the airport at 5:00PM and headed through the international terminal. We exchanged our pesos back to USD at a 487:1 ratio; I exchanged for 430:1 at PNC bank and 460:1 when I arrived at the Santiago Airport.
I enjoyed my trip here in Chile, and I hope to be able to study abroad here next year – I know Jon was thinking about it too.
Lessons Learned: 1. Chilean airport security is more lax than U.S. security.
2. The exchange rate for pesos depends on if you are buying or selling.
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