Spa Day!

Today was our spa day! When I say spa, you probably thing of massages and pedicures (so did we). The spa was actually more like a country club. It had cabanas, a restaurant, two pools and a soccer court.

 

To start off the day at the spa, we had empanadas (again). These empanadas were filled with fried meat and onions along with one olive and one piece of a hardboiled egg. I learned that this filling is actually a traditional Chilean filling. No wonder why I've had multiple empanadas and school lunches with this filling!

Although the weather has progressively become cooler and windier, today was a beautiful day to layout next to the pool!

While we were sunbathing, a group of Chilean women sat under the umbrellas opposite from us. They peered at us from across the pool with strange looks. This is probably because Chile is beginning their winter season, so to them it is strange to see people in t-shirts and shorts during this time of the year. To me, it was strange to see people walking around in scarves, heavy coats and Ugg boots because the summer season is beginning in the United States.

After relaxing at the spa, we walked a few blocks to Verner's house. Verner is the professor in charge of the Plus3 program at the Universidad in Vina del Mar, so he organizes the group of students that accompany us on our activities. He is a very warm, welcoming and generous man. He hosted a barbeque for us at his summer home. My favorite food at the barbeque were the hotdog-sausages. I thought it was interesting that Chileans do not use premade and packaged hotdog buns. They use special loaves of bread that have four lumps that when you break them apart and slice them down the middle, they become hotdog buns.

Tomorrow we will be spending our last day in Chile going horseback riding through the country. Yo estoy emocionada!