Chapter 9 - Peru Loving - Part 1 - Lima

Life In Chile

Chapter 9 - Perú Loving - Part 1 - Lima
(June 2014)
3 Months to go 

I honestly do not know where to start with this blog post about Perú!!!!!!! It was such an incredible trip!! I am going to try and not bore you all again so here goes :) 

Our first stop was in Lima to visit our beautiful friends Mr & Mrs Woodland!! We loved being able to hang out with our amazing friends for a few days :) They were such amazing hosts and we had so much fun!   

On our first day in Perú, we went to see the government palace, 

Plaza del Armas,

a Cathedral,

and lots of bones and skulls in the Catacombs :)

After a good amount of time sight seeing, we had all worked up a mahousive appetite and after Jr & Patty had been telling us amazing things about where we were going for lunch, we couldn’t wait!!! Guess what….they were not wrong!!!! La Bistecca was incredible.  It is a worldwide buffet restaurant and boy we were stuffed after that!!!! 
We then headed to a park called Parque De La Reserva – Circuito Mágico Del Agua. It was such a beautiful water park with loads of different fountains and even a native dance show projected ontp the wall of mist - and it was also so much fun!!!! 

Of course we couldn’t finish off the day without catching up on the Britain’s Got Talent Final in our Pjs haha!! 

The next day we headed to a beautiful part of the city called Miraflores where we had a lovely bike ride along the beach side :) even if it rained haha!  

All this exercise obviously made us very hungry, so here we come CHILI’s!! 

Once our bellies were full to the brim, we headed to catch a bus tour around Miraflores where Jr attacked Josh and I by pulling a branch back and then it whacked us in the face haha!!! Of course we couldn’t finish our trip without heading to another restaurant ;) Loving life!! We headed to a restaurant called Las Tinajas - Chicken & Grill where we had our first taste of Pollo a la Brasa…. delish!!! (Although I wasn't a fan of a Peruvian drink we tried there called Chichamorada - Made from Purple Sweetcorn) 

Thank you so much Jr & Patty, we had such an incredible time and cannot wait for more fun times together. 

Love you both x

Chapter 8 - Gringos in Chile

Life In Chile

Chapter 8 - Gringos in Chile
(May 2014)

4 Months to go

What a busy time we have had recently! In the space of approximately 8 weeks we have had 6 people come to visit us here in Chile!!

First to visit were my Mum & Dad, they were with us for 10 days. We experienced our first Chorrillana from J.Cruz in Valparaiso.

It doesn't look too appetizing but it is incredible!!

I am so happy we went to this restaurant even if Mum & Dad wanted to kill us given the sketchy looking alleyway the restaurant was down haha. Thankfully it was such an incredible experience!!

Our first trip to the Thermal Springs

Our first BBQ

 Luckily, I was only working evenings so I was able to be tour guide Barbie for them haha!! I was so upset once they left!! We had so much fun!!!!! Come back please :)

Second to visit were Nathan & Teri (Our cousins :)), they were only here for 7 days, short but sweet!! They were lucky enough to have the opportunity to go quad-biking in the Andes. They were also able to tick off something from their to do list in Chile…. to have a photo with a llama!!! Haha WAHOO!! We were also very lucky enough to try our first Dominó’s hot dogs……DIVINE!

They also introduced us to the international gaming world :) We almost wish we hadn’t gone now because by the time we had got home, Josh had already looked up all the games we played to see where we could buy them from haha!!!! We loved it though, us game nerds partied hard till 1am!!

 Once again we were gutted they were leaving us so soon but we were so excited for them as they were heading to Rio De Janeiro next!!!! Well Jel!

Last but by certainly no means least, Jodie & Ben (Our brother & sister)!! Finally after more than 2 years we were reunited with Ben! Wahoo! Obviously for their first meal in Chile (like mum & dad) we had to make them try some traditional Chilean food a.k.a TACO BELL! Haha! Fortunately there was a national holiday on one of the days that they were here so Josh & I were able to both take them to Vina del Mar & Valparaiso, don’t worry Ben I’m not going to tell anyone that you fell down the stairs TWICE (ooopps too late ;)) luckily he was not hurt, we think!! Sadly, it poured it down with ran that day!

We also visited San Pedro De Atacama in the desert of northern Chile (driest in the world), which was a first for all of us! What a trip that was! We were able to experience Geysers, thermal pools, being in a desert (of course!!!), Moon Valley, a Chilean graveyard and not forgetting some of the craziest weather of our lives (a sandstorm, hurricane and SNOW!!!) It hadn’t snowed there in 13 years and it was apparently the worst snow they had seen for 70 years; of course it snowed on the weekend we went there!!)

What this selfie looked like from an outsiders perspective haha

All in all it has been incredible! We have experienced sun, wind, rain, thunder & lightning, hurricane, sandstorm & snow!! Gotta love Chile!!!

Please feel free to visit, we only charge a minimum staying fee of chocolate

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