How are you guys?! Ok, I promise that there is just one more "Part" to Anna´s and my Winter Vacation. I told Anna that she can do "Part IV" since that was the best one (Valdivia). She doesn´t have as much access to the internet so that is why she hasn´t been able to post as often. Anyways, for your viewing pleasure here are some more pics of our time down south with our Chilean friends Jaime and Rossi (plus rug-rats).
Anna with the little guagua (Chilean for baby)
Anna and I took care of little Phillip to help Rossi out. Here I am trying to be the "baby whisperer" :). I put Phillip to sleep with a castle piece and sung "Baby Baluga". Not bad, eh!
The beautiful green countryside. Something we don´t have a lot of in Copiapó.
Sunday or Monday we all took a tour of the farm (which is huge!). Our first stop was the barn where all the young calves are kept. Rossi´s dad told us these cows are a mix-good for milk but also good to eat!
Anna with Jaime and Rossi´s oldest child, Ania (not sure on the spelling). She mostly stayed with her grandparents who she is very close with.
Meeting the locals.
One of the many pastures that Rossi´s dad has. He has each pasture divided up and rotates his cattle around so they always have good grass to eat.
Anna and I soaking up the sun and the greenery! It was a very relaxing day with a lot of good fresh farm food for all of our meals (fresh made cheese, beef, etc.).
Here is Rossi´s dad. I forget his name, but he was VERY nice and a great host. He was always making sure Anna, Nick (another volunteer who came) and I felt at home. It was very interesting talking with a man who looks American or European and speaks fluent German, but also speaks Chilean spanish fluently.
Rossi´s dad cut some saplings up and made a "horse" for the kids to "ride". They held a stick in one hand between their legs and with the other they had a leafy branch as a switch. It was creative and they loved it!
Here we all are watching the kids play with their stick horses.
It was amazing how agile Rossi´s dad is for a man about 76 years old. I guess good health comes from hard work and fresh all natural food.
Life and Death are much more apparent on a farm. Anna went outside to take pictures of the sunset and farm and ran into the farm dog´s chew toy...a calf´s leg! GROSS! Well, for us city slickers that seems gross, but the dog seemed happy! ;) 
Here I am waiting at the bus stop to go to Temuco (about 1 1-2 hours away from Faja Meisen where Jaime and Rossi live). This was a day trip we took Monday or Tuesday.
We didn´t take a lot of pictures because it rained a lot of the day and so we did a lot of inside things that day- we got coffee, saw the "Harry Potter" movie in English, etc. We did walk around and explored some and here Anna is eating some fried sweet with Manjar inside.
Here is one pic of downtown Temuco. This city is in the heart of where the Mapuche live. The Mapuche are indigenous people native the Chile. Well, that is about all for now. I hope you guys enjoyed seeing more of our pictures from our Winter Vacation. We had a great time with lots of adventures and wanted to share some of those with you all. Next time Anna will post about our time in Valdivia and wrap up our "vacaciones del invierno". Until then! Hasta luego!
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