Got picked up early this morning in a people mover, after not getting our wake up call from reception... lucky for us, leigh had set the alarm. Also lucky for us that we had both been wide awake since 2 am with our jetlag. Plus, we had two separate occasions of people bounding into our room. Some geek came in about 4 am calling out "Phoebe? PHOEBE?!".. WRONG ROOM!!!! The joys of staying in a hostel. So, we stopped along the way to rent our ski gear, including pantalons (hehe), gloves, skis, boots, etc. and headed up to Valle Nevado, about a 40 min drive from Santiago. Another horrendous driver, much worse than the last. Now it´s been a few years since i skied but a few minutes into it i had my form back and
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