Pictures - finally!

Hello all,
The internet has been on the fritz at La Casa Loca (the student house) so I haven't been able to post pictures from last weekend until today. But... finally here they are!
It was such a fun trip (and great to go through the pics and relive it) I'm definitely looking forward to more adventures soon... this weekend we're going horseback riding in the Andes and having a picnic on the Cerro San Cristobal (a beautiful lookout pt in the city).

But, back to last week's tour of the San Antonio Valley and the Coast:

The cellar that is designed to resemble a barrel

Annie at the "Altar" in the wine cellar

At our private wine tasting, where Antonio taught us about the history of the Mapuche (the indigenous tribe in Chile):

More shots of the beautiful countryside at Matetic:

Como se llama, Llama? (that joke cracked me up for a while)

An example of the beautiful and delicious food at the vineyard:

In front of the Museo Fonck, Viña del Mar (an example of the statues found on Easter Island):



The beach in Viña:

The view from our room in the hostel, Valpraiso:

Yes, Annie and I ate this (steak, eggs and onions on french fries) and Annie thought it needed CHEESE!:


Mafalda, the adorable puppy at our hostel:

The streets of Valparaiso (Nikoletta, I thought of you a lot while I was here: all the different building styles, the engineering challenge of building on steep hills, etc):

Views of/from the ascensors (yes, they are still functional! and supposedly safe...):

An adorable English cottage in the middle of a Chilean coastal town, followed by an adorable Alpine bungalow:

From the LUKAS museum, not sure how well you can tell, but the man's face is also an aerial view of the city:

 Me and Tyesha, overlooking the port:

Driving home to Santiago with the Andes in the distance: