day fourteen – activities
Day fourteen was filled with some fun activities. We got up daly an piled into a van and headed south down the coast to San Antonio where Gonzalo lives. Once there we met his parents, took a boat tour of the port, then went backabd ate lunch with his family. His dad made his own bread and salsa, and we had the choice of either a seafood gumbo or a piece of steak – I had both and both were delicious.
After we ate the group headed up to Pablo Nerudas house – well his one by the ocean. Pablo was a famous Chilean poet and depending on who you ask he was either a jerk or a great man. During the tour we learned a bit about his seaside house. We got to see his collection of ship leaders(?) [the decorative person like object at the front of a boat], all of his beetles, collection of instruments that he didnt play but liked the shape of, and his amazing view of the ocean even from his bed. The whole house had a ship feel via the narrow doorways, wood floors held together with pegs not nails, and décor.
Once we were back in Valparaiso we all got cleaned up and headed out to Pajarito (little bird in Spanish) to have one last group meal. We had gone to this place one time as a large group in the very beginning and the service was slow but this time it was extremely disappointing. Not only did it take over two hours for everyone to get their food but they didn’t have half the items on the menu. We hypothesize that the resturant is incappable of accomidating the orders of a group that has more than four people. Although the service was terrible it was still nice to have everyone together for one last meal.
That night Gonzalo took just about all of us to this five level dance club called Huevo – or egg in spanish. The first floor was a metallica cover band, the second was kinda like a coffeehouse with some no names performing, the third floor was the reggatone/top 40 in the Spanish world room, the fifth floor was this small hallway of a room playing some Chilean dance music and a room that was half outside for salsa dancing. The fifth floor was the roof and it featured chill dance/trance/house mixes. We all started out on the roof then spent some time in the top 40s room, but then it got too Spanish for me and I decided to check out re reggaetone room – it was packed. I hung out in there for a bit then headed back up to the roof. On the way I passed by the green hallway room by the salsa one because I heard some good 90s dance music coming from there. Slowly everyone gathered there and then spent the next couple of hours enjoying classics such as Rythem of the Night and the Twist.
One thing that I really didn’t like about the bars there (and in places in chile) it is set up where you have to pay first then wait in another line to get the product, unlike here where one person handles getting you the product and playing cashier. And the fact that since the water is bottled you have to pay for it and it can’t be found at each bar. Annoying.
Tags: boat ride, family meal, Huevo, Pablo Neruda, San Antonio, valparaiso
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