Friday we hiked up to Cerro San Cristobal.. which is a like Cerro Santa Lucia except its way bigger (Cerro Santa Lucia is in an older blog post, and also in the picture below it is that tiny clump of trees surrounded by buildings.)
The top of Cerro San Cristobal..
Me and my amiga Jess @ the top!
Then Friday night I took a free salsa class with the other Gringos (sorry no pics of that) which turned out to actually be pretty fun, even though I was obviously terrible.
On Saturday, 3 of my American friends and I decided to go on a hike that we found on Google. Turned out to be pretty challenging but also super amazingly awesome. We want to go back before winter.
The beginning. It took us 4 hours to hike to the waterfall, including our pitstop for lunch. Also it was the hottest part of the day for some of it, so we had to take frequent rests in the shade.
Photo op. Me. Mimi. Jess. Mejores amigas! (haha, "best friends")
Claire, Jess, and I on a rock.
Me being very Louis and Clark like
Its difficult to explain the emotion in this picture. We had been hiking for about 3.5 hours and were pretty certain we were never going to find the waterfall.. This was the first time that we actually heard it/could see it (although its very tiny, if you look closely its like right above Jess's hand.)
And then we still had 30 more minutes to hike and it was super steep!
Thirty minutes later we were at the waterfall! It was so awesome!! The water was freezing but it felt amazing.
The waterfall was freaking gorgeous though!
But very cold!
And afterwards, I obviously got burned in really awkward places.. even though I applied SPF 70 like four times! The watch tan is the least of my worries though, the backpack strap tan on my shoulders is pretty disturbing.
Early Sunday morning (around 3am) my good friend Karl drastically overestimated his ability to climb fences. Thus I spent the better part of Sunday morning watching Karl struggle to communicate with telephone operators in Spanish trying to figure out which places our insurance worked at, while Googling nearby hospitals and such. Fortunately he wasn't in much pain (as far as he would admit,) but he did end up having to get stitches. His analysis of Chilean healthcare: decent, but expensive.
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Approximately 2.5 hours of sleep later I woke up early to go rock climbing with my newly found Austrailian friend, Tom, which was great fun and I learned all sorts of hilarious things about Australia/U.S. perception. Probably the best was that in Australia "jelly" is "jell-o" so when he was little and he heard that Americans liked peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, he and his friends were super confused. In his words, "how do they get the jelly to stay on the bread?!" Haha that cracked me up. After climbing Tom and I went to a Chinese restaurant and we learned the difficulties of trying to communicate in a second language with another person who is also speaking in a second language. I ended up ordering Pollo con Dientes de Dragon (literally Chicken with Dragon Teeth) because it sounded badass but it turns out Dientes de Dragon is BEAN SPROUTS. I was so disappointed. But okay that's all for now!! I'll try to update this more frequently so I don't have such long entries!! :D
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