Las docas y Valparaiso.

On saturday we went to Las Docas to go camping on the beach! Wild camping once again, but this time for real! We could borrow the car from my host parents which was really nice, so we could go to a sort of hidden beach and set our tents there. We arrived, put up our tents and prepared our dinner and had some drinks before going to bed. Ready for yet another trip to Valparaiso. Vamos a la playa! Here we where staying at Oscar’s place so no need to put up tents. Then we had a barbecue and some siestas before heading into the city para bailar y bebidas! First stop was an irish cafe, second a deserted rooftop bar and last we ended up in the place to be. Good music, good drinks and mucho bailar con amigos. Next morning, well just a few hours later we had our breakfast and went on our way to see a little bit more of Valparaiso before heading back home.

Color run y Bomberos.

This weekend Sophie turned 23, so I went to her house on Friday. We watched a nice movie with nachos y guacamole before heading to bed and waking up next to the bday girl! Her family prepared the breakfast and that made it a great beginning of the weekend. Next up was the brunch at Maeve and Hugo’s place. Here we prepared burritos and nachos with cheese out of the oven and it felt like the day was just made for food. But nooooo the color run was waiting for us. So there we went with food babies and our best behaviors. We know Chileans are not that punctual about time so we left for the run when it was supposed to start. Expecting to arrive somewhat on time for the actual beginning. But when we arrived nothing had started yet, so we where waiting for 2 hours still before it all began. Also they had this awesome system of not letting everyone go in at once, which made everyone just more eager to start. And people started pushing and that made it quite unsafe. Good thing dutch people are tall.. After two hours we where ‘running’ and on our way. Running wasn’t really possible because of the crowd in front of us and the path was full of big rocks and bumps and holes. Which we couldn’t see because it was dark. So we ended up walking the 5K. After this we joined the awesome crowd of 16 year olds and showed them how to dance properly. After the run we continued our journey to the fire station of the Bomberos. This station was big and sort of Hogwarts like so I felt right at home. Pool table was ready, drinks where too and so was I. This night continued until the morning and then still a bit more until it was around 9 in the morning. Time to get to a bed. Sophie and me found our way back to Maeve and Hugo’s apartment and slept some hours before heading to the food trucks. Which was supposed to be a big festival and stuff. But turned out to be just 5 food trucks and some random music played through speakers. But we had some nice papas fritas and went home. Just in time to dump my stuff in my room and open the door for Sofia who got dropped off by her dad. Then quickly into bed to get ready for the new day. And! The next day Manuel will come into the Chilean world!