It’s Sunday May 15, 2011 10:13 pm. We had another smooth day today. No plans until 6 pm dinner at quite a classy and elegant restaurant. But to start the day, I didn’t wake up until 2 pm. Late night last night I know. I woke up to only two other students being here while everyone else went either to the mall or to church or to both. The three of us were quite hungry and went down the street to find some food. There were two stores that seemed appealing, but we weren’t sure if we wanted to eat there, so we decided to leave and come back at a later time. We went instead to the flea market to buy some souvenirs. We stayed for about an hour and then went back to one of the stores that we visited earlier. The first time around, one of the waiters tried to get us to stay and we said we’d be back… Now that we were back, he decided that he wasn’t letting let us escape a second time. The first time he even came from around the back and spoke to us in English to try and make a connection. This time, he asked us to take a seat and he would serve us personally. We had no choice to but to respect his business tactics to make his paper. We sat down and placed our orders. He began to make conversation by asking where we were from and what we were studying. He even began telling us about himself and making jokes, etc. From a business perspective he definitely did his job of attracting customers, but it’s not like we didn’t know what he was doing. Anyway, the food was good and we left and came back to the hotel.

Not even an hour later, it was time to go to dinner at a place called Tierra de Fuego. It sat right on the beach’s edge with a beautiful view. As mentioned earlier, it was quite classy and professional. We all came in well dressed and had heads turning left and right (plus we are foreigners, so that didn’t hurt). We ended up staying about 2-3 hours and had one of our greatest dinners of the trip. We even managed to get a group picture on the walk back to top the night off.