Chile: the last couple days

After Valdivia, we headed back to Conception where spent 2 nights before having to fly back home :(
In those couple days, we had some lunch at Bartolo's Mom's place, and toured Conception a little more.

On our final night in Conception, we went to a little pub and bought a bunch of craft beers to share. We spent our last night together sharing beers, and eating chips, meat, pebre (again... this is definitely where those 7lbs came from).

In Chile there were many buildings, houses, retail spaces that were effected by earthquakes. This was a municipal building that couldn't be restored after an earthquake and as a result was left untouched for a long time.

This is the amazing town centre of Concepcion! On our last day in Chile (the day we flew out) we spent the day wandering around, checking out the shops, and had some lunch.

We made sure that we were all packed up prior to leaving to tour the city for the day since we had to get on our flight in the afternoon. We packed up our things after our day in Concepcion and went to return our van (which was right across from the Airport).

 After a sad good-bye to our favourite Chilean friends, we hopped on flight #1 of 3 home... this was the state of feeling about leaving Chile and going back to work <

:(

In between flight #1 and #2, we had about a 4 hour delay in Santiago, Chile (which is the capital of Chile). Here, me and Chelsea enjoyed our last Picso sour in Chile. Then after our last Picso sour, we had another last picso sour, then another. Then we heard our names over the intercom and realized we almost missed our flight from Santiago to Dallas (that's the 9 hour flight)... oops! Darn delicious Pisco sours!!




It was a long 20 hours of flying until we got back to Canada. Aleksy and I had some swollen ankles for sleeping in a sitting position. And we got right back into the craziness of life when getting bck! Birthday celebrations, running around for bday presents and all.

This was definitely an amazing experience of a vacation... and we spoke Spanish! And got pretty darn good at it too I must say. But now, it is being lost (our Spanish tutor would be so disappointed).