¡¡¡estamos!!!!
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Published: July 22nd 2007
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Big sigh. We made it!! Right now i´m in Fran´s house on her computer!! I have an amazing view of Santiago right where i am sitting! it´s beautiful! th sun is setting and the snow covered mountains look red!
How we got here:
with difficulty!
Our first flight was fine. Late, but all went well. Then we arrived in Miami. It was after twelve and sarah was freaking out about harry potter, but all the book stores were closed! haha. and we could see the copies!! it was funny. she kept asking me to ask the people if we could just get in and buy a copy! Then we flew to lima, peru. The problem was, our flight was about an hour late!!! So the plane finally left for lima around 2 30 in the morning. I barely slept on the over four hour flight...it was not fun..becuase i was worried about missing our next flight. However, it turned out that our flight from
RECOVERED pick up a copy of her beloved harry potter!
We got to Santiago without a problem. the plane was huge and really comfy. we got pillows and blankets and the headrests were those cool ones that bent so that it was more comforable. yay! so we got to santiago and looked for our luggage....and only found sarahs. apparently, mine hadnt made the trip between planes in lima. BUT the good thing was, this year, i was very prepared for this type of thing (if you dont remember my troubles last year, look at an older blog...what fun...not..) AND they knew where it was!! so they sent it to fran´s house and it was here waiting for me when we got here!!
We left the hotel and were looking for a phone and an ATM. people bombard you saying, taxi? and so these two guys were asking us where we were going, let us use a cell phone to call fran, and took us to an atm. Then the driver guy came up and we paid and we were on our way. Oh, imagine all of this with sarah and i in our flip flops, outisde, it was raining and FREEZING! the taxi people laughed at us. really. ha.
We got to our hotel, which was really nice. the whole way there, though, sarah and i were talkinga bout if we had gotten ripped off or not...we thought we had paid a lot and werent sure b-c they use pesos here. i asked for a receipt, and the guy said somehting really really quickly and kinda walked away. thats when i realized that we were played. majorly. we had paid 100 dollars for a 30 dollar taxi ride. So at this point, we are cold, wet, and mad beyond all belief. i was SOO mad and frustrated with myself!! I still am, really...
Anywyas, so we get to the hotel and the people are sooo nice, so i decide not to generalize all chileans as rude people who take advantage of two innocent girls. ugh.
We go to a supermarket and buy some bread, (which was freshly made and REALLY tasty) and water, go back, have our first meal and to go sleep. So this is at 4 in the afternoon. I dont wake up until midnight, and sarah was still sleeping! Around 2, i went back to bed and didnt wake up unitl 8. Wow, we are fun. Our first day in chile we....get ripped off, and sleep. great.
In the morning we walked for about 2 hours down one street to see chile. it was still cold, but not raining, thank god. Then we came back to the hotel to wait for fran. She was 2 hours late though bc she wa waiting for her parents to come back from mexico, and they had a lot of flight troubles. But, she did get there and it was great! we met up with all of her family for a big lunch! It was great. her family is SOOOOO nice!!!! VERVY VERY accomidating and welcoming. And now i´m at her fabulous house writing to yall!!
I hope everyone is well! ill add pictures in alittle, of the city and house and mountains and such. So far it seems that we are some time going to go to the mall, go skiing, and i dunno what else. possibly the beach? when we said that we were leaving friday morning, frans mom was so upset, saying so soon? and asked about how we could change our tickets! haha. we said we would have stayed, but the tickets were a good price. so she asked how much it was to change them!! ahha. dont worry mom, i wont let her pay to change our tickets! ha
love!!!
laura
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