VALPARAÍSO! VIÑA DEL MAR! REÑACA! CON-CON! We woke up at the same time as we do for school but we just dropped off Sebatian at school and then continued on a hour and a half drive to Valparaíso. I went to bed after we passed through the sunny cerros (hills)
and woke up just outside of the very very foggy Valparaíso
. We drove through the center of the beautiful town very quickly so it was next to impossible to take photos but I got a foto of the first glance of the ocean! 
We parked (on the sidewalk by the way) and walked over to where all the barcos (ships) were docked. At first we were not allowed in (you need to be part of an athorized group) but my papá has a many connections with the right people so we ended up entering un "the delegation of Denver, Colorado". Whatever, it worked. There were ships from all over the world: Uruguay, Holland, Brazil, Mexico, to name a few, but the most elaborate and beautiful was Esmeralda- the Chilean barco of course. 
After an hour or two of looking at the ships we left and headed North. It is only about a 15 min drive to Viña del Mar (w/o traffic). We didn't get to walk around Viña unfortuantly but I saw the building that Sebastian was in during the earthquake (on the 11th floor) sooo terrifying. We continued north to Reñaca. This town in the summer is even more of a party town then Viña. All the Argentinians and students rent these crazy apartments and go to the beach and go clubbing. Maybe for (colorado) winterbreak my Colorado parents will let me rent a place there and i can invite some Chile friends to join me for a few days.....
There we saw so people surfing. And by the way it was still foggy and just as cold. From there the next town north is Con-Con which is like a mecca for empanda resturants. The resturant that I was told has the best empandas was closed so we went to a different resturant, I would have picked to got to one of the hole-in-the-wall restuants for empanadas but papá picked a nice (more expensive) resturant. The empandas here were good but definatly not amazing (they were the deep-fried kind rather then the baked ones that I like better). From here we headed home arriving back at about 4. I took a quick nap while we waited for Sebatian to get home and then we left at about 5:30 for Santiago for a mass and dinner with the family of my papá. This didn't end until about 10:30/11 and we did have school the next day.....
Friday
During school it started to rain. There was i huge trueno (thunder clap) and the lights actually went off. Ignacia's class thought is was a earthquake so they all ran outside screaming. Smart, hun.
After school I had a volleyball game. We won again but in 3 sets not 2. Next week we will win in 2.
Right after that I took the bus to my friends house for a "meeting" with my curso. I guess they had been really worried about me because they thought I would arrive earlier so I had like 10 missed calls. opps. After I changed and had something to eat I headed off to a CVX meeting with Juampi on the bus. My mamá was so surprised that i was entirely cool with taking the micro that much friday but it is really easy. During the CVX meeting i was falling asleep and so I decided that it was not the best idea to go parting because Sebatian wasn't going anyway.
Because it had rained that basically means that every one makes sopapillas. Wow thats not spelled right.... Unfortualy since I got home so late I didn't get the fresh ones but they were still delicious.
Sat
A very lazy day. Very. I actually did homework i was so bored. jajaja
Sunday
Woke up at 10 had breakfast and then headed off to Santiago. Sebatian didn't join us because he was working on something for his class. We got a private tour of the Moneda because my papá used to be high up in the police force so he has connections. It is such a beautiful building inside. here are a few fotos:
We also went to a new-ish museo where there was an exibit about China. I was so happy about this because I had been trying to teach Ignacia a bit about China since that is our theme for the alianza. After that we got in the car and drove in to the cerros (hills) the the expencive part of Santiago. We went to a mall and basically just looked for a place to eat that wasn't there. At 4 we ended up leaving and stopping at a gas station that made sandwiches for lunch. Not the best but my stomach definatly welcomed the food. Thats about it for today.
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