Aneya & Lauren: More Pictures

Lauren: Bicentennial signs are all over the country. And many exhibits display historical artifacts from Chile's centennial. Aneya and I went to an exhibition at the National Library today where they had an exhibit on journalism, and many newspapers were open to the day of Chile's centennial. There are tons of festivals taking place around the country too, and a hiking trail from the tip of Chile in the desert north to the southern tip has opened for the bicentennial. It's 3,000 miles long. Quite a hike!
Aneya: Here is a close up shot of the Castle, where we went clubbing that one night.

Lauren: It's around the corner. A castle. Around the corner. This beautiful castle is about five blocks from our house, and walking through it you can see how huge it is. It's labyrinthian! We almost killed ourselves climbing these tiny, slippery stone stairs!
Lauren: Aneya getting all artistic.
Aneya: The top of that castle was not easy to get to! But we made it eventually, and it had spectacular views of the city.
Aneya: Finally, a shot of the Andes! Apparently they're more visible in the winter, I'd been looking for them everyday, and all I kept seeing were these little hills, not the real thing.

Lauren: They're towering over the city. A pretty good indication of their size.







Aneya: Lauren insisted on taking a picture of these guys, dressed in drag. They're like those vendedores I was talking about, except they juggle until the light turns green!

Lauren: It's incredible! While the light is red jugglers run into the street and do a performance. There's another part of the city where street performers put on a 45 second play on the corner during a red light, or so says Daniela, but we have yet to see this. Apparently, they use props and everything!
Aneya: The smell of fish was everywhere! These guys wanted me to come over and take a picture with them. I politely declined.
Aneya: This place had everything! Fish, produce, and lots of little restaurants inside. The waiters were a little too eager to get us to sit down, it was quite annoying.

Lauren: This was at the Mercado Central. Beautiful cast iron everywhere, but the floors were slippery with fish oil, and the waiters were really in-your-face about getting you to visit their restaurant. The restaurants looked nice, but I don't know how people could eat with the awful smell of fish everywhere.

Aneya: Inside the beautiful Bellas Artes museum. The art wasn't quite as lovely as the building itself, sadly.

Lauren: At least, not the exhibit we saw. The building was spectacular though. The ceiling was completely cast iron and glass.
Aneya: Ice cream photo shoot!

Lauren: There is some amazing ice cream here.
Aneya: Here's a good shot of the Uncle, coming around the corner. I took this out of our living room window, that's how close he was!

-- Aneya & Lauren