Más Fotos!

Hi again,

Well, the last couple of days I have had access to the internet here at my school so I´ve finally been able to post some pictures. If you haven´t looked at the pictures of Anna´s and my house and of Copiapó from the last blog post, check them out!! Anyways, here are some pictures of a beach town near Copiapó. It´s name is Barranquilla.

Anna and I were invited by an older couple that befriended us. Their names are Juan Carlos and Rosa. They live here in Copiapó, but they have a little beach house in Baranquilla and needed to go their for some election (i think, not exactly sure!). So, they asked us if we wanted to come along and see Barranquilla. The drive out their goes through baren dessert (in the background of the photo of Anna) which in a weird way is beutiful. I know we think of a beutiful landscape as full of green trees, grass, etc. but the desert is actually pretty (think Lawrence of Arabia). Anyways, once we got their we went down to the beach to look around and then afterwards we had lunch with Juan Carlos and Rosa. The lunch was delicious! We had rice with sea food mixed in and a salad with fresh goat cheese, tomatoes, and avocados.

Afterwards they took us to another beach town called Puerto Viejo. The beach was even longer there, but the main reason we went was to look at a place where a meteor fell back in the 1920´s. It was pretty incredible to see because there is a decent sized hole and all around it the sand has been cooked into rock. Let´s see if I can upload a pic of it....

Ok, the picture on the left is Anna standing at the crater hole and the pic on the right is of me looking over the edge of the cliff made out of cooked sand. The whole area was pretty cool and Anna and I had a great time. After visiting both beach towns Juan Carlos and Rosa took us to their house to have some tea, snacks, and meet their two boys who are going to the university here. They were all very nice to us and were very hospitable.

Well, I hope you guys have enjoyed the pics! I won´t be able to post tomorrow because the teachers are all going on strike over unfair wages! Yeah, they strike a lot here in South America! Ok, well until later.....

Chao (as they say here for good bye, not CIAO like in Italy),

Jason (and Anna)