Chile Plus3: 396,000 Pesos (Post 9)

     Today was yet again another day that we could do anything we wanted. With that, I decided to sleep more than half the day, exactly til 1:30 pm (thanks to someone in my plus3 group...) and then was reminded to get up again at 1:36 by yet again another group member... After finally getting up and dressed, I caught the moving train to the mall. After walking around 100 blocks, we made it to the massive, 3 story building. There, a few thing really stuck out to me, such as the fact there were approximately 5 MacDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts. Interestingly enough, regardless of the huge popularity of MacDonalds, there are practically no massively over weight Chileans unlike in the US.

     After our trip to the mall, on the way home, we walked through approx. 200 yards of street vendors and even some sand-castle artists--people who make different designs in the sand such as sea creatures and sometimes Homer Simpson. With out any success of finding something worth buying, the group and I went to get some pizza and returned to the kingdom of Hotel America.

     When returning, I instantly got dressed up for our fancy Sunday evening meal at Tierra de Fuego. I was repping my business suit with a blue and gold tie, blue shirt, and a classy pocket handkerchief--considering 90% of the clothes I packed were really dressy business clothes and I haven’t needed any of them yet, I had to get dressy tonight. To be straight up, the dinner was all around amazing. Starting the meal, I had a corn, tomato, green-pea salad. Following my "ensalada", I had a perfectly cooked, medium steak. Two minutes later, it was completely consumed. Though many weren't interested in desert, I ordered a Piramide de Chocolate. To compliment the best entree I have had, I consumed the best desert I've ever had. Two huge meal successes in one day is unheard of. 

      Today was a great, simple, enjoyable day. Tomorrow the trip schedule will return to normal and we will all be horseback riding..wish me luck