Valparaiso and Vina del Mar

Yesterday we went to Valparaiso to do some sight seeing.

We sight saw the port and took pictures.

And then we went out to eat lunch at a seafood restaurant which was excellent.

Then we went to Vina del Mar to walk on the beach and freeze.

After we froze, we went to the mall the thaw out and drink coffee, but unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that.

The New Dryer

At my mother's suggestion I am posting pictures of Melissa's new clothes dryer in action. It's extremely impressive and hi tech.

It works with both sunlight...

...and gas heat.

A Day In Pictures

Good Morning!

Good morning to the mountains,
Good morning to the smog,
Good morning to La Polar,
Good morning everyone.

>>insert mental picture of breakfast<<

Time to bake a cake.

Mmm Mmmm

Ironing

Cake's done! Time for the icing...

Where does Meli keep the powdered sugar?

"Where's the powdered sugar?"

"In the grocery store! What a great place to keep it!"

The powdered sugar is now in the apartment.

And the cake is now iced.

Lunch time.

Dirty dishes

Clean dishes

Father's Day presents for church tomorrow.

Margot is here for a visit.

To the Providencia church to see Rocio

and Garrett

and make some rather disgusting pizza.

Then home to watch Pride and Prejudice.

What a wonderful ending!

Goodbye

Michael left a week ago Monday, and my parents and Gabriel left last Friday.

Here we are saying goodbye in the airport.

Pomaire

Last Thursday we went to a little town called Pomaire that is about 45 minutes from Santiago. First we ate, which is, of course, the most important thing.

The restaurant was called Restaurant San Antonio. It was very picturesque.

But also rather cold.

After we ate, we went on to the next most important thing which is, of course, shopping.

Cajon del Maipo

Friday, May 25 we went to hiking at Cajon del Maipu. The picture in my banner is from there.

The hikers

We got a late start so we only hiked for about an hour and a half, but we got up to where there started to be patches of snow. And if there is snow there must be a snowball fight!