Last night I spent about an hour outside looking at the stars. They were absolutely amazing. I really wish that Aimee were there so that she could have seen them with me. I really these weekends, they break up the trip a little bit making things much easier.
This morning we got up and had a very expensive breakfast for what we recieve in the club house that my cabana shared with several others. Right after breakfast we got ready for the day´s hike up the mountain. The bus arrived and we off to the start of the hike. We were all very pleased when we heard our guides speaking Spanglish, and found out quickly that between the speakers we were all able to understand each other enough to communicate. This made the GUIDED hike a little more worth the money. I had suggested just going for a trail hike because we would not be able to understand our guides anyway, but nobody went for that suggestion. The hike was amazing. It started in the woods and quickly rose in elevation. The trees and underbrush cleared and the sun began to bake us all. As we exited the woods we began to see mountains of black volcanic rock. It was quite the sight and we were informed that the near by volcano erupted 70 years ago and these huge piles of igneous extrusive rock were resulted. After some time of climbing we were able to see the source of all the volcanic rock in the distance. I was very amazed by this site because you were able to see the path of the lava flow through the valley starting from the volcano all the way to the point that we were standing, it was absolutely beautiful, a sight that I have never experienced before.
After many many pictures we continued our hike pasted the rock field and trough some woods until we came upon an old collapsing building. One thing that I have found during my time here in Chile is that safety is rarely considered, so we all climbed on the old collapsing building. It was pretty solid?!?! We took a bunch of pictures and it was time to head back to camp, or the cabana (there is supposed to be a little squiggly over that “n”, but I only have an American keyboard). So we were all goofing around on the falling down hotel and our guides were ready to go so one of them said, “Ok let’s go”, in their sweet Chilean accent, and out of nowhere Marshall says, “No Habla Ingles!” It doesn’t sound that funny on paper but the guides thought that it was the funniest thing in the world and it my have been the highlight of the trip. We all got a really good laugh out of it and the guides repeated it like 100 time on the way back.
We went to a different mini market on our way back to the cabana because we bought the other one out yesterday, their closed for the rest of the season and I’m pretty sure I saw a nice new truck in the owners driveway (That is a little bit of an inside joke but I had to include it here). So we bought out this mini market too, because we had to eat and the entire town is closed, except for a few mini markets that are also now closed due to lack of supplies. We got enough food for lunch, today and tomorrow, and tomorrow’s breakfast, we are having pizza tonight for dinner cooked by the cabana club house. When we finally got back to the cabana several people took naps and the rest of us all lost to Marshall playing ping pong. He is no fun to loose to, by the way, because he is a really sore winner. At around 8 o’clock we had dinner and watched a movie afterwards. It was a great end to the day and we were all ready for bed. Oh and I slept on a kid sized mattress on the floor in the living room, by my self. My head to my butt were on the mattress and my legs were on the floor. This is what happens when everyone knows you are a snorer. The good thing though is I got to sleep right next to the fire all night long, so I was the only one that was warm through the night. So There!!!
