Saturday, I just felt plain lazy. We went to the beach and bummed around. The beach was in Reñaca and it had different known `social sections'. One was more for families and kids, one for teenagers (where they go to chat and be cool, all wearing clothes and no swimsuits), one for body builders and hot people (known as Bacardi Island), and one for more normal people. It´s so funny! Then after we went to get food. I got a giant hot dog with avocado, mayo, tomato,...

Today was a parting of ways, finally, for most of our group. Some people were going back to Valparaiso and some onto Santiago. I stayed at the apartment with the couch surfing guys because I was going to take a bus that night and it was just a block or two away from where they were at. We went and ate some pretty good sushi and then we were all pretty tired from the night before so nap time was after. I was going to do laundry but instead took a nap, so I packed ...

Packing this morning was a little rough after only sleeping for about 3 hours. Our group planned to go to Vina Del Mar to go to the beach. Some of them had arranged to Couch Surf that night with a couple guys they met last time they were in town. I needed to buy a bus ticket so I hopped in the car with one of the French couples, Quentin and June, who had been traveling and living out of a camper van for the last few months. They drove me to bus station and I got...

Today our group of international friends went out to check out a famous elevator (this one did go straight up and down) which lent more gorgeous views of the city. Our group began with 9 people, wandering down the hill from our hostel to where we could hop on a trolley to take us the 10-12 blocks north. We were in a busy square and were trying to ask for directions when the correct trolley pulled up and we ran over and hopped on quickly. After about 10 minutes on...

Today I had another awesome breakfast at the hostel. They give us fruit, juice, coffee or tea, and a ham and tomato sandwich. A pretty good breakfast for a hostel. I wandered around the city with Jonathan, with one of our missions being to find a Halloween party (we had met some French people that are staying at our hostel and we all wanted to do a party for Halloween). We succeeded in finding one online - it was a ferry boat party with an after party at a bar in...