This is an entry just to send out a 'hello!'. July has been pretty calm and relaxed here. Winter finally arrived, as it's been much colder, with lots of wind and rain. So not much has been going on worthy of journal updating. We've been holding down the fort during the storms, watching lots of Seinfield and movies, and I've been cooking a bunch. Life has been good! I was starting to accumulate a few random photos on the phone, so thought it was time to upload them along with a little journal entry.
The Loberia is a protected placed just off the beach in Cobquecura, about 30 minutes south of Max's. The rocks really arent super far from the beach, but you do need binoculars to see the lobos de mar (chilean sea lions) well. But there were at least a thousand of them on all these rocks. We go to Cobquecura from time to time when Max needs something from a store bigger than what Curanipe/Pelluhue have to offer.
Other pictures are just from random little adventures. The waterfalls are about a 15/20 mintue drive from Max's (although distance-wise they arent too far; its just that you take a small curvy road to get there), near a pueblito called Quilicura. They were beautiful to see; we hadnt visited them sooner because autumn/winter have passed with little rain up til recently, so the waterfalls have been dry. And the aromo trees are everywhere. To see them all in bloom along the side of the road is quite striking!
On Saturday we leave Max's house in Curanipe; he will not return until sometime in the spring, so we have been busy all week tending to his to-do list of things to take care of that are necessary for leaving the house empty for a couple months. We will be going back to his home in Vina del Mar (Vina with a tilda over the 'n'), where he has very things to take care of beore his buddy Randy, from LA, is coming to visit for three weeks. They are going skiing in Portillo for a week, then going to Mendoza for a few days of wine-tasting, and then going south to Corralco to ski for another week. Aaaand, I've been invited to tag along. =) So I will deinitely be accumulating more awesome pictures and stories to share. I'm not sure what my computer access will be iike in the next few weeks, so figured I'd get this update in while I could. When we get back from this trip, I will then be heading to Argentina! Hard to believe my first block of time in Chile is almost up!
