Santiago...

Hola amigos...we are currently in Santiago where it is HOT AS HELL!! be jealous that we are going to come home dark. We left you all in Valpo and we were adaptorless, and it was scarry because we needed to charge our camera to have pictures obviously. The owner of our hostel told us of a place that should sell them. Thankfully they did so we wil have pictures of Chile to show everyone when we get back. After we had a sigh of relief we had to find the bus station in the heat with 30 pound bags on. Eventually we just grabbed a cab and then got a bus ticket to Santiago, but had to wait for two hours. While waiting there a little kid was casing the joint, and we were scared that he was trying to rob us. We also talked to an old Chilean woman. who said we were beautiful and asked if we were brother and sister. We finally got on the bus with no airconditioning, and was the ghettoist bus of the bunch. Oh well, we finally got into Santiago around 5pm. A young guy on the bus probably could tell we were confused and asked if we needed help. He helped us get our metro passes (BIP cards) and told us which line to take to our hostel. Once we got off the metro and went above ground, ANOTHER helpful Chilean (this time an older gentleman) helped us find our way to our hostel, and gave us a brief history lesson of the city along the way. Our hostel is in a really trendy part of town, with lots of bars and restaurants; it´s like the Belltown of Santiago!
Today we did a walking tour. We visited some museums, the Presidential Palace, several squares and parks. After our first museum visit, we were sitting at a bench park, when all of a sudden we were approached by gypsies! They´re tiny little things, but were pretty menacing and kept wanting money and to tell our fortunes. We said No gracias! and got outta there!
That´s all for now...more to come!