Chile - Day 6

Thursday we flew into Tembucu, Chile.  While in the Santiago airport waiting for our flight we found a cinnabon.  For some reason sitting on the floor in the airport with my cute family devouring cinnabons made my heart happy.  Everyone was happy and excited and they tasted so good.  We finally got on our flight.  The kids did great.  People were so kind and switched places with us so we didn’t have to leave any children unattended.  Right before landing Lucas claimed he was going to pee his pants.  We had to keep distracting him until the plane landed and then rush him to the airplane bathroom while we were getting off to avoid pee pee pants.  We got our stuff, a rental car and headed on our way.

 

 

.  We drove to our hotel and let me just say…WOW!  My heart felt super excited that we get to stay here for a few days.  It is a cabin just right outside the town of Pucon.  It has three bedrooms, 5 beds, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room.  The best thing about it though is the view.  It overlooks Lake and it is absolutely beautiful.  The kids were so excited they couldn’t contain themselves.  They rushed in and claimed beds, unpacked belongings and got to playing.  We had to leave to go eat lunch and Madeline started crying because we just got here and she wasn’t ready to leave.  We convinced her it would be okay and I promised to make dandelion crowns when we got back.  She was okay with that. 

 

.  We drove into Pucon and ate at a German restaurant.  It was good, not great, but good.  We left there and went and got some food to make at the cabin.  During lunch the kids were so excited about this little dog that kept lingering around.  We got groceries and headed back to the cabin.

 

.  When we got back we all sat outside on the grass picking dandelions.  We made crowns and took pictures.  It reminded me of when I was a little girl.  We used to sit around in tabiona making crowns and curling stems in the water. 

 

We came in and made pizza and popcorn and watched the croods.  After the movie we went outside on the porch to look at the stars.  Oh, how I Love the stars.  I don’t take nearly enough time anymore to look at them.  I took some pictures of Jimmy and the kids and then the tired bug started to bite and we had to put some grumpy kids to bed.

 

Madeline insisted on sleeping on the top bunk.  I kind of wondered what would happen in the middle of the night when she woke up.  I thought for sure she would forget that she was on a bunk bed, but instead she just jumped off onto her brother.  Ha, oh well.  I didn’t sleep much between her and Jonas sandwiching me in my bed.

Chile - Day 5

On our 5th day in Chile, we woke up late and got ready to just wander around a little bit. We ended up walking to the big fish market in the center of town.  I thought it would have more touristy things inside, but it was mostly rows of stinky fish after rows of stinky fish.  Being pregnant in an atmosphere like that is dangerously nauseating.  We looked around a bit and then kept on walking. 

 

Why is it that whenever you ask someone to take a picture for you in

what is obviously a touristy spot, they always do something like this....

 

We stopped at a little bakery/café and tried some empanadas with meat in the middle.  They were fantastic.  They came with this spicy sauce to put on them.  YUM!  The kids also got some not so great cookies.  They were happy though.  We ate three empanadas between us and went on our way. 

 

 We headed over to one of the local parks so the kids could run around outside for a while.  Right away Madeline fell off of one of the swings and scraped up her back.  Poor girl.  She sat for a few minutes and then was off to play with her brothers.  I love watching our children play together.  They have so much fun and happiness just pours out of them.  It makes me happy.  We then headed to a little used toy store that they just had to go in.  Each of them bought a little toy and you would have thought it was Christmas with how excited they were about them.

 

 

View from the top at 19 weeks.  

 

We had to do some laundry.   

 

Then we headed back to the hotel.  We stayed there for a little while and then we went to get some food. We ended up at this little Chilean restaurant and it was packed full.  We went there because Jimmy wanted to try a specific dish, when it came time to order they were all out of it.  We settled on roasted chicken and noodles.  The kids got ice cream afterwards…for the 50^th time.  Then we headed back to the hotel.  I wasn’t feeling so great.  I think the food we are eating is making me kind of sick.  I was eating so healthy in Brazil and now I am just eating a lot of everything.  Baby is not too happy about it.  The kids went to bed super late.  We stayed up and watched a movie.  We got up early in the morning and packed our stuff up and caught a taxi to the airport for our next adventure.