Wow! I just got back from an amazing trip down to "The End Of The World". I went to the south of Chile and was able to stay with my host family's daughter. I visited the national park torres Del Paine. It is huge and there were more gringos there than natives. My favorite part of the park was the different lakes that had different colors, oh, and then the glaciers. The glaciers were bright blue and huge. When I was climbing up the path to them they looked close enough to touch, but once I got to them they were definiatily out of reach. They are just so big that over the hill I couldn't tell just what I was about to see. And then with the lakes, one of them was grey one was teal and one was a really like blue. They were all clean, just different colors 'cause of the minerals in the water. I always thought that different colors meant that the water was dirty. I also got to go to a place where the penguins go to lay their eggs and then sit on them until they hatch. There were tons and tons of them. They were walking up to the trail and just staring at us like were were staring at them. I found lots of feathers, I don't know which ones are from penguins and which are just from birds, but I am going to keep them as souveniers. I saw milodon remains, flemincos, foxes, llamas, ostrages, everything! Milodons were around in the time of dinosaurs. They were vegetarians (what is the oposite of a carnavour called for animals? I don't remember) and they are pretty big. Hair from the animal has actually been found in a big cave here. We went to see the cave and while we were there there was a fox with it's little babies. The family just wanted to get up close and take pictures. I wanted to run away!! It was a fox with babies!!! That sounds dangerous to me!
It is the end of the school year down here and we went to a little get together with the families of Cata's classmates. It was on this really cool farm and all of the kids got to ride horses. We had an asado (bbq) and one of the dads just cut the goat right up in front of us. Skinned it and everything. I stuck with hotdogs after that. At least with those I didn't see the butchering process! While I was there the kids and I had a blast painting faces. I have lots of pictures of them in different disguises. My Chilean "sister" is Carolina, "brother in law" Pedro, "neices" Coty (Maria Jose) and Cata (Catalina). They were so nice to let me stay there. Soon they are moving to a different part of Chile and I am going to go and visit there there as well.