Another day, another peso

Whuddup,

Today it was rainy and yucky in Santiago--the perfect day to go to a museum. So that's exactly what we did. The Museum of Precolumbian Art was fantastic. We saw artifacts from the Maya, the Aztecs, and a ton of other cultures we had never heard of. Cool stuff. We met someone there from the panhandle of Idaho and talked about how there aren't many states with panhandles.

Matt got a Big Mac to see if tasted the same as in the states. It did. You know what they call a Big Mac in Santiago? A Big Mac. Not even "Mac Grande." Just "Big Mac." A Quarter Pounder is a Cuarto de Libra (literally, "Quarter Pounder").I got an empanada and a Pap (a papaya-flavored soda) from a little corner store. The women working there asked us where we were from and could barely contain their laughter as we conversed in our poor Spanish. We were glad to amuse them.

We also bought a bunch of alpaca wool stuff. I got some hats (the kind with ear flaps that Andean people wear), some gloves, and some socks. Not too much else to report for now. More posts to come.