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Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Our lake journey...

On our little tour down south with my parents we also went on a cruise of the lake... and to see some waterfalls. It is just SO beautiful down there!

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I loved the little waterfall in the background here.

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So then we went for a wander and found some boats sitting amidst the reeds. Matt hopped on board (of course) and started with his seafaring poses. lol

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Smoochies in the pretty park! ^_^

( Pretty gardens and flowers... )
mood: happy
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Fruitillar

So while we were travelling down south with my parents... we visited a town called Fruitillar (Fruitilla is the Spanish word for strawberry... Strawberry Shortcake is called Frutillita here! hehee). Fruitillar is a little German shoreside village on the massive Lake Llanquihue.


On the way through the town I took a lot of photos out the van's windows.

( Even more quaint German style houses... )
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Puerto Varas

Puerto Varas was a sleepy little town right next to the big lake. Many things down this way have a bit of a quaint German feel to them.
We stayed at...

( It was so cute... )


That church was so beautiful!

( More pretty buildings and mountains... )
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Puerto Montt

While my parents were here we all went down to Puerto Montt (my dad took some of these photos btw)...

There were so many interesting buildings down there...

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The markets were stinky. haha



I love the colours you see used everywhere in this country. Very vibrant!
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Yay!!!

Mona ([info]_smashing_mona_) invited us to have Christmas dinner with her and her family and Greg tomorrow night!!! YAY!!! Greg is Mona's boyfriend who has come to visit her from the US... after so many years online! I'm so happy for you guys!

And we are having turkey!! YUM!!!

Also yesterday I went and put my wedding dress design in and also an order for some custom white wedding boots. Both should be finished sometime in the next 2 weeks!!! YAY! Thanks so much Carolin ([info]lobolita) for helping translate everything that was going on!

Then Carolin, her boyfriend Juan, me and Matt went out to El Naturista a yummy vegetarian restaurant.... and then Club Cultura Alternativa which was really cool. They make great pisco sours too. :D

( Walking home... )


Matt picked one for me ...awww. ^_^

( Then there were the students going crazy... )



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They set off some fireworks.


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So many police... with wacking sticks!! lol
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So after our Christmas dinner at Mona's place tomorrow night then on Christmas day we will cook our own chicken and vegetable roast... and then that night we are going to have drinks at another friends house. It's going to be a great Christmas! ^_^

Tonight we are going to Blondie. Anyone else going? We realised we have to make the most of it before we go back to Australia since there are not clubs like that in Brisbane.

mood: happy!!!
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Friday, December 9th, 2005

Wine tour...

While my parents were visiting we went on a wine tour of Santa Carolina winery...


Us by the barrels.

( Wine tour... )


The way the lights hit the ceiling was haunting.

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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Cerro Santa Lucia...

While my parents were here we went on a city tour of Santiago.


Me and my parentals! ^_^


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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

The Cemetary...


A pretty little lion to sit on.

( The city of the dead... )


Then a more serious shot. hehe


And then I saw a broomstick just sitting there... it was BEGGING to be ridden! hahahaha

( Even more cemetary goodness... )


Shhhhh you'll wake the dead!!
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Monday, November 21st, 2005

Valparaiso

While our parents were here we visited Valparaiso (Chile's main port and second-largest city). It is such an amazing and beautiful city!!


Yay for Valparaiso!!!


A boat by the water.


A gorgeous little hotel up on the hill (my dad took this photo with his zoooom lens).


The Navy building. I told Matt that one day I want to live in a giant palace like this! hahaha ^_^

( So many more pictures of beautiful Valparaiso... )
mood: colourful happy
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Home...

My parents (and Matt's too) came to visit for a month.


Here's Matt and I when my parents first got here... we went out for Chinese food. I don't know what happened to the light in this pic but I love those blue tones! :D

( Hello Kitty party... )


A creepy dog I saw on the street here!!! Spooooky! >_<


The apartment's bedroom... before Sharon... and after Sharon!! ^_^

( More pics around the apartment... )


The lovely K'Nen ([info]prolificpanda)...


And the K'Nen choker I made for her!! :D

( More jewellery stuff... )

A video of some dancers in the street. I wanna dance like this! (right click and 'save target as')
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Buenos Aires!

Ok... so finally I am getting around to posting all the photos from our travels. So... back on the 18 Aug we went to Buenos Aires for a few days.


Here we are tango-ing it up!! hahaha Ok so really we went on a bus tour and they took our photos... pasted our heads onto these bodies and then, at the end of the trip, they presented us with these 'special surprise' photos (that cost about AU$10 lol). We had to buy it cause it's so hilarious!

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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

The city... the park... and the SWINGS!!! ^_^


The view from the post office on a rainy day.


Us venturing out on our way to the park.


A street performer. So cute! ^_^

( Santiago... )
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Monday, July 25th, 2005

A night at the orchestra!

I have bought a bunch of cool new stuff... and we went to the orchestra!


A very spooky building. I would like to live here I think.

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A sneak peek at some of my new little faces. Still unfinished (I am waiting on paints from Australia). :D


My new FAVOURITIST boots in the whole wide world!!! I was imagining boots EXACTLY like this to go with my new skirt and then I found them (even in my size) in a second hand store here for 5,000 pesos (again AU$11.50). What were the odds!!?!?! I was SOOO stoked. Plus they are just about brand new too!


Me wearing my new skirt (from Dos Caracoles) and my new mega bargain boots! I can't wait til I can wear this to Blondie! :D Ooh and look on the table you can just make out a lovely rose that Matt brought home for me one day. ^_^

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It fried Matt's brain...


...and made him go CRAZY! :P lol

( More 'art'... )
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Monday, May 30th, 2005

Mendoza!!

It all started with a silly handwritten note Matt left for the maids...


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The winding road we had to take up and through the mountains. I guess this was part of what was closed off when we tried to come back.

( More snowy stuff... )


Aww so cute!

( More horseyness... )

In conclusion... the difference between us getting home in time to see The White Stripes... and us being caught on a bus for  24376343 hours - ok really it was 16 hours - and totally missing The White Stripes).



But how can I be mad at such lovely fluffy white snowy goodness!?!
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Creepy, creepy dolls... and Parque Forestal...

Thanks to a tip from [info]fao, Matt and I went to this very creepy cool doll exhibition at Museo de Bellas Artes which is only a few blocks from our house. It was SO cool!!!! I didn't want to leave!! LOL!! Thanks Felipe!


My seven angels. They weren't really called that... I just named them.

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Then we saw this AWESOME cool dog in the park. I want a dog just like this!!!! He reminds me of Barkley from Sesame Street. Does anyone know what kind of dog this is??

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Yay for pink, black and red!!
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Friday, April 29th, 2005

Protests, parties and burnt up houses...

One night from our apartment we could hear people chanting and blowing whistles in the street so we decided to go down and see what all the noise was about. We figured it would be a protest of some sort.


It was quite a peaceful protest. They were just slowly walking along with candles chanting. And the police were directing them down towards the mall so they would get off the street and let the traffic pass.

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Then we went to a birthday party! It was a friend's brother's birthday.


I learned how to say Feliz Cumpleanos (happy birthday). These people are so lovely. I love how welcoming people are here in Chile. Look on the coffee table... there is a big jar of Vegemite!! hehee Pepa (the girl in the aqua shirt down the front) had that leftover from when she had shared a house with some other Australians. So she gave us a HUGE jar of Vegemite. We now have Vegemite!! Woohoo!

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Thursday, April 28th, 2005

More photos...

Not last Friday but the one before (goodness was it that long ago? It's been AGES since I've updated!) Matt and I met up with Andrea ([info]nocturnus33) and she gave us a tour around the city. Andrea is so lovely... I thought so from livejournal but she was even more lovely in real life!

She drove us so far around the city to look at a bunch of really cool and interesting things. Next time we go she's going to take us to the cemetary! Yay!


Firstly we went to El Golf metro station to meet up with Andrea. It was quite pretty there and it was a gorgeous day!

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mood: tired
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Monday, April 4th, 2005

More of Santiago...

Here are just a few more city photos of Santiago...


This is the haunted house. It was a couple of blocks away from the boarding house we stayed at. It was wonderfully creepy. I want to live in a house like that! If it was done up of course.

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I want this cat!!!

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PS - We now have Pepe! We went and saved Pepe yesterday... today we are going to find Pepe a mate. I'll make an entry about that later. :D
mood: happy
music: We got Annie!!! ...I mean Pepe
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

Our New Apartment...

After our dramas at the boarding house we found an organisation called Contact Chile (http://www.contactchile.cl) who helped us find a fully furnished apartment that rents by the month (which gives us awesome freedom). The rent is $300,000 pesos a month (AU$150 a week) and it includes furniture, cutlery and crockery etc, electricity and gas and a daily maid service including daily fresh towels, weekly fresh sheets and full apartment cleaning (including the dishes!). It's GREAT!

It's a very new apartment on the 11th floor. I love it so much! It's also been a bonus because the amount we are paying affords us extra help from them... for example Ana from Contact Chile even made my doctors appointment for me. :D


This is our apartment block. Strangely enough I took this photo one day when we were wandering around the city... before we even knew the apartment was for rent. I just thought it looked like an interesting and cool building. Little did I know I'd be living there within the week!

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mood: relaxed
music: Devinyls - Science Fiction
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Santiago!

Santiago is so interesting that I've been taking my camera everywhere and taking shots of all sorts of things...


Like this little horse and cart in the street.

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mood: on the verge of a cocoa addiction
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