Time With Friends

Thank goodness for people to hang out with. If there's anywhere I want to go at night, these two girls are always there. Woohoo. This night we had a house party at Rosa's house. Its a super cute little house, but like most places around here, I just want to take over it and put some colors on the wall!

Its extremely weird that I feel tall in Temuco. (Example above) I'm not supposed to be tall compared to people. Gah! ...and just when I had gotten used to my shortness...

I went to visit Claire in Conce and one the places we went to was the "big lake." On the way there we walked into various little shops. The painting above really caught my eye. Its so cool! Someday I'll have to make a semi-copy of it.
When we got to the park I realized that it was full of random stuff. It started off as an outdoor gym with a bunch of exercise equipment, but I'm skeptical that it can give you a real workout. The most any of that stuff can do is make you improve on balance--you never know when you might fly off.
The second part of it was a skate park. It's not the first I've seen here in Chile, but it definitely was the nicest one. Then came the lake, which was gorgeous. Any summer day and I probably would have gone running into it. There was the typical park equipment-- swings, monkey bars, slides, but the last thing I saw was the coolest. There were abandoned boxcars and two coal powered train engines! I've been in these before at some ghost town, but I never got to climb up on them like I did at the park. There wasn't any dressed up conductor to tell me not to climb up on top of the roof XD

The next day we had a giant bbq for four. We drank some delicious cheap wine--someday I'll have to buy some for myself-- and we ate lots of meat, veggies, and dessert.

We had arroz con leche for dessert and we made s'mores! There aren't graham crackers here, so we used vanilla flavored water crackers instead. Its not exactly the same, but still delicious.