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Jennah — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:29:49 +0000

We arrived at a place that looks like Alaska. There are numerous pine trees that frame a marshy river-pond. It smells really good, a mix of pine trees and cinnamon sugar, sort of. Good times. We parked at pullover a couple of miles Validivia. Father and Ryan drove in to the town to scope out camping spots whilst the rest of us just chilled at the trailer. Ryan had used his technical geniunity to have our phone broadcast an internet connection, so that was being used. Father and my bro came back no better places to camp, so we decided we’d stay there. Today we got to the end. The highway ran past the ocean for a bit, and I was looking out the window when I thought I saw penguins. We were all freaking out and whatnot as we camped in a parking lot next to the ocean and I angsted out about tsunamis whilst Ryan told me how if there was a tsunami it would be even more dangerous because it would funnel through the fjords and kill us all. My brother is quite the soothing sibling, isn’t he? The next day we boarded the ferry to get to the island. The water was so clear I could see the bottom, and I saw several starfish. It was partly cloudy and sort of chilly on the boat, but since we were hard core Alaskans we stayed up there until the end. There were hornets zooming around, but I stood brave and didn’t get stung. The island was quite charming, with little water front towns, markets and whatnot. We walked around the first one’s market, which had a lot of knitted wool things. They were all very beautiful, though expensive, and I couldn’t buy anything. We drove from town to town, hoping to see penguins and not seeing them. It turned out that they apparently migrated and were no longer here. It was very sad. It also appeared that the ‘penguins’ we had previously seen weren’t actually penguins, either. The plan was to go out for seafood, since Chile is famous for it, and we scoped out several restaurants that didn’t pan out. In the end, we went to a litte German bakery thing. Down here there are a lot of German things, such as shnitzel. We got a sort of apple strudel and a manjar waffle, which was delicious. It was made of a crispy waffley bread with manjar that tasted like peanut butter in between and coconut stuck to the manjar. Chile’s manjar is considerably better then Peru’s. I’m not looking forward to eating Peruvian manjar again. We drove to a lookout point that showcased an idyllic fjord surrounded by picture perfect pine trees and white flowers. We took a moment to reminscence about the trip, like how everywhere in South America there are amourous couples all over and how they listen to ancient music, like from the eighties and nineties. As if to prove our point, we noticed a couple mere feet from us making out. Good times. Once again we piled back into the van and headed back. It was growing dark and we had yet to find a restaurant. We eventually gave up and took the ferry back. The next day we headed back into Valdivia and camped outside a German pub. Mother, father, Jack, Ryan and Max went there to eat whilst I stayed behind and watched the little ones. Apparently, the meat at the German pub was next to raw and everyone ate it anyway. Ew. I’d become a vegetarian, but I can’t seem to not eat meat… The next morning Lucy escaped and bounded along the highway, forcing Ryan, Jack and father to attempt to catch her. They did eventually and we were about to leave when Jack spazzed out because he had dropped his headphones somewhere in the huge field they had been chasing the dog through. Miracolously, we found them and headed down the road. That night the white phone that broadcasted internet broke, which was unfortunate but unfixable. And finally, we are in Santiago again. The first night we camped in a Copec and not our Shell station since there wasn’t enough room. The Shell station is like my fourth home, but we moved there the next morning and greeted Ruben and whatnot I spent the day taking my siblings to the playground that unfortunately they have here. I greatly dislike playgrounds. Jennah

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admin — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:30:46 +0000

We got in to Santiago the other day and camped at a Shell gas station. Dad drove to a parking space and while Dad disconnected the camper, Ryan, Jack, Jennah, Annabelle, Sylvia and I cleaned up and walked the dogs. Mom said there was an awesome amusement park in Santiago that was only open on Saturdays and that we were probably not going to go to it since it was a week away. After we cleaned up and drove in to the city we headed for a market the Mom read about that sells antiques and other junk, but when we go there it was closing up. So since the market was closed we drove in to downtown and drove around town and then headed back to the camper. The next day we drove in to town and went to the museums that were there. But when we got there, it turned out that the first museum we were going to was closed, so we went to the other, but it was also closed. Next we drove to a laundry mat so we could wash are close. We managed to find the laundry mat and helped Dad hale the close there and then abandoned him at the laundry mat and walked to a mall where we were going to get donuts at the local Dunkin Donuts, but it turned out that it was more than fourteen dollars for a dozen donuts! So we didn’t get donuts, but we did get soda, but that’s part of this blog post is a minute, so we walked outside and walked down half a block to a walking street and walked up the for a little bit until Mom said that we had stop so she could text Dad. But the Messenger app crashed or something so we walked over to a small street shop and bought six sodas for eight dollars. After we got soda Annabelle needed to go to the bathroom, so we walked in to a fancy mall to see if it had a bathroom, but sadly they didn’t. As we walked out we passed an ice-cream shop, and some lucky person had a giant banana split, it was HUGE! The stand thing it was on was as big as a dinner plate and it was covered with ice-cream and banana. Mom said Jennah and I could see how much it was for one, and as it turns out it was only four dollars, so we told that to Mom and she just hummed. After looking at the ice-cream Mom said we’ll just go back to the laundry mat so Annabelle can go to the bathroom. So after a few back-tracks and turning on to the wrong streets we made it back to the laundry mat as soon as Dad finished the laundry, so we took the close back to the van and met Ryan at the van and set off to the walking mall so Dad could walk around. When we got there everything was closing and Mom wanted to go to a Lider Express which is the Wal-Mart of Chile. Mom wanted a thing of water so Dad and I want in to a small store and bought her a bottle of water, and then Mom got mad at Dad because she told us that she said we should not buy it, but me and Dad didn’t hear so we bought her a bottle of water, and then it turned out it was sparkly water! So we walked around trying to find a Lider Express. We wandered around aimlessly until Ryan asked some clean up ladies where it is, and, believe it or not, it wasn’t. So we just went to the car and back to the camper where I’m having a memory of Dad buying a thing and the guy asking where he was from and Dad said we were from North America and then the guy said the we were were Americans, then Dad laughed and said that he was also a American and then left.

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