Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Part Two Chile Road Trip: Valdivia and Puerto Varas by Callum

We left the volcano and drove to Valdivia. Valdivia a big city but calmer than Pucon. There were a lot less tourists. Valdivia is by the Pacific Ocean. There are lots and lots of green pine trees. Mom says it looks like the Pacific Northwest of the United States. We got to the hotel and we started watching some TV and then we went swimming. After the swimming we played on a playground and had strawberry-rasberry licuados (smoothies). YUM YUM. We went to the town of Valdivia and went to a seafood restuarant where of course we had lomito meat)sandwiches.

When we left the hotel the next day we drove to the ocean and went to a Spanish Fort that was there four hundred years ago. We dressed up in soldier costumes and held real swords and rifles and had our picture taken sitting on a cannon. Maybe we can scan it and we will put on this blog. After the fort we drove up the coast and had the best empanadas ever! My mom and dad had fish and we all ate meat,ham and cheese and seafood empanadas. It was a beautiful day and it was a really neat restuarant like a tree house. Before we left to drive to Puerto Varas we went to play at the beach. The water was really cold but we played and found really good skipping rocks. I skipped my very first rock here.

We drive to Puerto Varas, checked into our hotel, went to our rooms and got our swimsuits on and went swimming. It was an indoor pool with lots of rules and a guy telling us what we couldnt do. We had a good time anyway. After swimming and baths we went to town. We decided we wanted pizza and we found the best Italian Pizza ever! I had pepperoni pizza and it was great. The pizza had thin crust so you could taste the cheese, sauce and pepperoni. I had the best dessert. It was lots of fruit, chocolate ice cream and whipped cream inside a bowl made out of cookie. This was a great day for food for our family.
Everyone was tired and full so we went to bed fast.

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