Last days of Chile

I kind of forgot to blog for the last week or so, I will try to remember the highlights. Skiing was incredible. I had never skied anywhere but around Boone, so the Andes were a bit different. We skied all day surrounded by snowcapped peaks and overlooking the city of Santiago far down below. By the end of the day, my legs were dead tired and we left our Bolivian (previously USA) ski pants on a bench after getting much more use out of them than the $3 we paid. Catherine arrived the next day and looked shocked to see us at the airport like we werent actually going to show up. We walked around Santiago then went to Valpo and the beach for a while. We were wanting to try some fish from the Pacific so we asked what we food we should try. We were horribly led astray. What I thought was catfish came out looking nothing like any sort of fish. I then decided that it must be squid and ate it, even though it tasted pretty awful. The next day I found out that it was in fact....wait for it....cow intestines. To follow up that great experience, we spent 17 hours on a bus the next day and made it all the way down south to Osorno in the lakes district of Patagonia. We got a cabaña with our own stove (a first) and cooked our own food which was exciting. We were overlooking a lake, but it was cold and rainy all day. We hiked in the rain the next day and then spent over an hour boiling ourselves in a hot spring. The lady at the hostel was incredibly nice and made us homemade (including the butter and cheese) breakfast every day with fresh pie.