Hopefully we'll be seeing you soon!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Heading home...
We're heading back to the States for three weeks tomorrow night, but we thought we'd post some of our favorite pictures from this past year...
Hopefully we'll be seeing you soon!
Hopefully we'll be seeing you soon!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Bizarro Santiago
The snow has been falling on the mountains these past couple of weeks, and here are some pics from our (soon to be ex-) apartment window:
The ski slopes are opening this weekend, and we might take a trip this Saturday to get a good day of skiing in (or maybe attempt #2 at snowboarding?) before our break.
This past weekend we took part in a Nido tradition and joined in a contest to see who could visit the most spots from Bizarro Santiago, a book about all of the strange monuments, clubs, and stores throughout the city (think "Weird Illinois"). Every team had 10 hours to get in as many sights as possible. Here are some of the better pictures we came home with...
Here we are at the start of the contest, looking as cool as possible in our matching uniforms:
It wasn't in the book, but we thought it was pretty funny that we ran into some North American brethren (a mariachi band almost as out of place in Chile as we are):
A lot of the "bizarro" sights were closed for the weekend, but we found a pretty interesting outdoor cueca (traditional chilean dance) festival in one of the city's squares:
Because we were having trouble finding things from the book that were open (but we were set on winning the contest), we felt like we had to create some of our own bizarro-ness. Here's a pretty familiar sight for people who live in Santiago (street performers trying to make some money at intersections):
Here's a slightly less familiar sight (Claire trying her hand at it but then coming up empty-handed)...
Possibly even more unexpected, here's me trying the same (and somehow actually making 100 pesos from a guy who probably thought I had some sort of condition deeming me worthy of charity)...
A few weeks ago we had the chance to head to Buenos Aires again and, despite missing Sarah and Megan this time around, had a lot of fun. Here we are outside of our hotel (in Palermo), trying to figure out a map (clearly lost without Sarah!), and then hitting up one of the street markets (probably trying to find Claire the biggest earrings possible):
Besides that, we've spent our last few weeks hunting for a new apartment. After a run-off (between a cabin on a mountain in a nearby canyon and a loft apartment further into the city), we made our decision and signed the lease for the city loft this afternoon. We're excited to spend the spring exploring even more of the city, and maybe when it warms up after 6 months we'll be ready for a house in the mountains.
We miss everyone back home, but we're excited to see as many people as possible when we zip across the country in a couple of weeks! Hopefully we'll see you soon.
The ski slopes are opening this weekend, and we might take a trip this Saturday to get a good day of skiing in (or maybe attempt #2 at snowboarding?) before our break.
This past weekend we took part in a Nido tradition and joined in a contest to see who could visit the most spots from Bizarro Santiago, a book about all of the strange monuments, clubs, and stores throughout the city (think "Weird Illinois"). Every team had 10 hours to get in as many sights as possible. Here are some of the better pictures we came home with...
Here we are at the start of the contest, looking as cool as possible in our matching uniforms:
It wasn't in the book, but we thought it was pretty funny that we ran into some North American brethren (a mariachi band almost as out of place in Chile as we are):
A lot of the "bizarro" sights were closed for the weekend, but we found a pretty interesting outdoor cueca (traditional chilean dance) festival in one of the city's squares:
Because we were having trouble finding things from the book that were open (but we were set on winning the contest), we felt like we had to create some of our own bizarro-ness. Here's a pretty familiar sight for people who live in Santiago (street performers trying to make some money at intersections):
Here's a slightly less familiar sight (Claire trying her hand at it but then coming up empty-handed)...
Possibly even more unexpected, here's me trying the same (and somehow actually making 100 pesos from a guy who probably thought I had some sort of condition deeming me worthy of charity)...
A few weeks ago we had the chance to head to Buenos Aires again and, despite missing Sarah and Megan this time around, had a lot of fun. Here we are outside of our hotel (in Palermo), trying to figure out a map (clearly lost without Sarah!), and then hitting up one of the street markets (probably trying to find Claire the biggest earrings possible):
Besides that, we've spent our last few weeks hunting for a new apartment. After a run-off (between a cabin on a mountain in a nearby canyon and a loft apartment further into the city), we made our decision and signed the lease for the city loft this afternoon. We're excited to spend the spring exploring even more of the city, and maybe when it warms up after 6 months we'll be ready for a house in the mountains.
We miss everyone back home, but we're excited to see as many people as possible when we zip across the country in a couple of weeks! Hopefully we'll see you soon.
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