Thursday, November 27, 2008

Chile Trip Post #1

This is downtown Santiago, Chile. You can see the business district of Providencia and Las Condes in the distance. The neighborhood most easily distinguished in this picture is considered one of the nicest in Chile.



This is Santa Lucia, an outdoor mall with all sorts of artisan work. We did a lot of Christmas shopping here, so Grace and Joe can look forward to a Chilean Christmas. Becca's belated birthday present came from this place too.

On our third or fourth night in Santiago we asked the hotel clerk for some place to eat dinner. He recommended the "Giratorio." It turned out to be a fancy restaurant that spins on the top of a tall building. You can see almost all of Santiago.
(If we had known it was going to be so nice we would have dressed for the occasion!)



One of the first "Chilean" foods I treated Manee to was hotdogs! They accurately call them completos - meaning completes. On top you will see tomatoes, avacado and mayo. Mandee loved them, and we're going to start making them at home.




3 comments:

Whitney Hardie said...

Dave and Mandee, thanks for showing us pictures of your trip and telling us all about it. I'm glad you guys had such a great time. We need to go on a trip together soon!

Aub said...

i can't wait till we have enough moola to go on a trip like that!

Mommazita said...

Loved your Chile pictures. I can't wait to see more 3 weeks from today! When we arrive in SLC........I'm counting down the days.