April 25, 2009

9:00- Alarm goes off.
9:30- Amanda and I get up and get dressed, still groggy from a late night at the samba club.
10:00- Buy snacks at Líder for our hike in Parque Nacional La Campana.
10:30- Dunkin Donuts closed. Go back to Líder for breakfast. Rush to meet Jono and Stefan, two of Amanda´s friends, at the metro by 11.
11:00- Arrive at metro.
11:30- Jono arrives at metro. Stefan is at bus station?
11:45- All on surprisngly nice Valpo metro. Discuss adventures at the samba club.
12:30- Arrive in Limache. Look for bus to Olmué.
12:35- Notice man renting double bicycles in the plaza.
12:37- On bicycles. Amanda and I ride circles around the boys, laughing when they have to get out and push the bike.
12:45- Switch bikes and discover that theirs is super ghetto. Must use "Little Miss Sunshine" technique to get moving. Boys ride circles around us laughing.
1:00- Get on bus to Olmué.
1:20- Arrive in Olmué. Amanda charms colectivo driver into taking us to the park.
1:45- Driver drops us off on the side of the road, next to the "1 km to Park" sign.
2:00- Finally arrive at park entrance. Ranger informs us that we do not have time to do the 7-hour hike to the top of the cerro.
2:15- Hike.
2:19- Wheeze.
2:45- Stop for a break and lunch. Realize how much I miss PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY. Boys spout nonsense about the rat king of Chile.
3:15- Go back down.
3:45- Take another break at the bottom.
4:00- Back at our sign. Find bus but the driver wants to wait ten minutes. The boys go to buy water. Driver asks us if they are our husbands while changing clothes in front of us.
4:10- Rock out to Backstreet Boys on the radio.
4:30- Back in Limache. Eat ice cream. Get back on metro.
5:15- Back in Viña. Amanda and I go back to her apartment and nap.
7:00- Wake up. Amanda gets in the shower.
7:30- Amanda gets out of the shower.
8:00- Amanda is ready to leave for dinner.
8:40- Delicious goat cheese and tomato empanada. Rent Seven Pounds for ridiculous collateral.
10:50- Back to Líder for snacks. Recieve angry glares from closing employees.
11:30- Watch Seven Pounds.
2:00- Go to bed depressed. Don´t let the bedbugs bite.