Happy Birthday Meli, but why are your fingers so dirty?! Up early in the morning with a whole day to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the birth of Meli. I tell her from the jump, “what baby wants, baby gets!” She wants sushi and to see Pablo Neruda’s house. Done and done! We drop off our laundry—who really wants to get back to the USA on Saturday with laundry to do—and walk to Restaurant Japon. The stroll over is in the opposite direction we usually take, and we start to see everything we wanted to see from Santiago. Fruit stands, bigger and better markets, bookstores, restaurants, and more. Once we get to Japon, a place Meli was lucky to find on the web and that was on a street our map didn’t label, it turns out
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