Today was our first rest day. I woke up at 11:20AM to tell Jon to post his blog, then went back to bed and finally woke up at 1:45 PM. We had gotten to bed at 5:00AM the night before.
I went shopping with some of the girls; we stopped at a few places in Vina del Mar. We went to a dollar-store type place with some pretty good deals, but very eclectic items.
After the dollar store we went to the Vina market. We walked around 3 hallways full of vendors and got to see a lot of cool Chilean items. One guy was even working on his stock and showed us how he cut steel into shapes; he turns coins and spoons into jewelry.
Then we had lunch at a nice diner. It looked a little shady on the first floor, but once we went up to the second floor it had a very open room with nice furniture and a beautiful view of the street. I had a nice piece of meat with sunny-side-up eggs, onions, and French fries. The French fries were the best I had had yet in Chile, I do not care for Chilean fries.
After lunch we headed back to the hotel to meet up for a futbol game. We watched Everton play; it was 2-2 at the end of the second period, but we did not stay for overtime. The stadium was about the quality of my high school’s stadium, but the food was amazing and very well priced, I prefer it to the States’ stadium experience. On the way back I talked to Andres in Spanish and learned a lot about Chilean culture.
Lessons Learned: 1. Even small fubol teams have a ton of crazy fans.
2. There are plenty of live cut wires over the streets of Vina del Mar.
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