Viña and Valpo+ more

I went to a club last weekend, and for the first time in my life I got carded. Carded, meaning I look younger than 18. I mean I know I look pretty young, but younger than 18? We went to this club with my   friend's host sisters, and they're in their late 20's, so we were easily the youngest people there, but it was one of the most fun clubs I've been to. They played everything from Madonna to Mambo #5 to Hot n' cold and there were some really funny dancers.
This past Friday and Saturday we went to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, which are about an hour and a half from Santiago. We stayed in an the apartment of our Spanish teacher's son's girlfriend (long story how we found that) but they rent out the apartment on the weekends.  It was absolutely gorgeous out, so we did a lot of walking around. Viña del Mar doesn't really have a ton of stuff to do, besides the beach, but I'm so glad it's finally get nice out, it's about time! We decided to "make dinner" since we were in this apartment, so we picked up food to make salad at the grocery store, and bought these delicious empanadas, one with shrimp, mushrooms, onions and lots of other stuff, and others with spinach and cheese. But before we ate dinner, we we walked to the beach and got some icecream. (Fascinating that everything I do revolves around food...but not surprising at all)After our wonderful dinner, we we met up with our spanish teacher's son's friends (another long story), which was fun because we got to hang out with Chileans.

                                        

On Saturday, we had a really good lunch (here I go with the food again) with great fish, and the funniest english translations I have ever seen. Potatoes and the Pope are both the same word (papas) so everytime there was potatoes on the menu it was translated as 'popes'. Papas fritas (french fries), was translated as crispy popes, papas salteadas (salted potatoes), translated as skipped popes. My favorite was probably 'empanada loco queso' translated as empanada crazy person cheese.

After lunch we took a tour of Valparaíso. The city is really cool, with really brightly colored houses, and old elevators. We walked all around the city, walked over to Pablo Neruda's house (I've now seen all 3!) and then walked around the port, and made it for Saturday night.  I'd really like to go back to Valpo and Viña sometime soon, maybe go to the beach, eat some more good food?

Off to Buenos Aires tomorrow!