Friday May 13. 9:36 pm….. That doesn’t sound good already. So you know today we had some bad luck. Well not exactly because today might have been the funniest days of 2011. It was just full of all kinds of inside jokes. We really had too much time on the bus, there and back. But back to the bad luck, we woke up early and had to meet at 9:15 am to go visit Isla Negra, a place about an hour and a half from our hotel. We didn’t actually leave until about 9:40 am, arrived around 11:15 am and we were 5 hours early. How about that for business etiquette and punctuality. So instead of going back and returning later because it would be a gas guzzler, we toured the area we were in and had thousands of funny comments during the ride. We went and visited a famous poet’s tomb in the middle of nowhere. I have no idea what the poet’s name is. After that we went to lunch for about 2 hours. We might actually have made it to CNN Chile because someone came in and starting holding a camera to the whole group as we ate. When we left here, we went and saw the world’s largest pool; 1000 yards wide, 115 ft at its deepest, covers 20 acres, and holds 66 million gallons of H2O. It was very near the coastline and we happened to get some good pictures.

4:30 pm came around and we went to the house of a second poet by the name of Pablo Neruda. He lived during the early 20^th century, so his house was old-fashioned, but quite nice. It was designed like a ship in some rooms and he was interested in statues. I wouldn’t mind seeing the view that he saw every sunset.

Following the house visit, we went back to University of Santa Maria and had our final reggae ton lesson. It seemed rather short, but it was fun. We are now back in the hotel, it’s Friday night, so I think you know what time it is…. Toodles.