Beach Day!!!

We had to get up earlier than most of us would have liked to catch a 1.5 hour bus trip to Vina Del Mar to spend the day at the beach. The bus had the most amazing reclining seats and we all soon fell asleep to catch-up on the hours of sleep we had missed. It was like sleeping on a cloud.

Once we arrived at Vina Del Mar we started to walk in search of the beach. After only a few minues two dogs joined our group and accompanied us to McDonalds. We ate our incredibly cheap food while watching the sky because it was over-cast, windy and only 16'c. We were hoping for slightly better weather for our beach day.

We reluctantly left McDonalds and soon found ourselves swarmed with many new dog friends who were hoping to join our clearly dominent pack. The dogs became too much when we stopped for churros at the beach side stand. After eatring our churros we split up to try and loose the dogs. It worked mostly, accept a handful of our group ended up stuck on a ledge overhanging craggy rocks and the raging ocean, with a persistent doggy friend. The rest of us took lots of photos.

We had a debreif session then we tried to baptise me (Caitlin) but apparently it only counts as 3/4 because my hair didnt get completly wet, but it was too cold to go in completly and I was more or less dropped onto the soggy sand. It was very funny. And super spiritual. We videoed it:D This lead to running through Vina Del Mar to look for somewhere to change into dry clothing because it was still only 16'c. The locals thought we were crazy and we missed the bus home, but it's all G.

To celebrate our last night in South America we went to a restaurant where we got buckets of meat. It was good. There was half a chicken on top as 8 steaks on top of heaps of sausages and we ordered 6. It was very good.

We are all sad mission is coming to an end, but excited to go back home :)

Caitlin xxx