We went to bed at 9 last night and I woke up at 11, ready to go for the day. Two hours later at 1AM, Millie tapped on Nick’s shoulder to ask if it was the morning. We all lay in bed silently attempting to sleep but wide awake. At some point we must have drifted off because we were eventually woken up again at 10:30AM when a housekeeper tried to come in to clean our room. We were discombobulated to say the least.

We missed the hotel breakfast so we found a hip brunch place on Google and walked there. It was packed and we had a 30 minutes wait for a table. Millie almost didn’t make it but we got her an emergency pastry and then enjoyed a huge and leisurely brunch.

First impression of Santiago: very hip!

After our breakfast we walked back to the hotel to rest some more and try to get ready for the day. Tiredness hit and we lazed around for a couple of hours. Finally I nagged everyone enough to get them to leave.

We were deciding between uber and driving and went with driving ourselves. I’m still not convinced we needed to rent a car but we’ll see how it goes later this week. We got very lost because there are subterranean roads that make the maps almost impossible to follow. But we did make it to the park.

The entire park was for kids. Millie bounced between thing to thing, climbing and running to find what was next.

We took the funicular to the top and admired the views of the city from up there.

There was a series of stairs with corresponding concrete slides all the way down. They tore a hole right through the butt of her jeans. Farewell jeans, we hardly knew thee.

Normally we’d sit on a bench and let her run free to make some friends, but she was hesitant with the language barrier. I tried to feed her some pickup lines with my limited Spanish (“quieres jugar?”) but she felt too shy. I get it. So, our time at the park didn’t last very long.

Nick was exhausted so we decided to just head back to the hotel. We brought Millie to the pool on the roof to get some more energy out, and in hopes of staying up late.

The pool was freezing so we played in the lukewarm hot tub. A Canadian joined us and we talked to her about her work as a mining engineer. She comes to Santiago quarterly to… measure rocks… I think?

We made it to 7:30 and walked out in search of dinner. This is a lively city and we had a couple of places to choose from. We had simple sandwiches and Millie drew some scenes from her day. First, me catching her at the bottom of the slide. And second, me and the Canadian talking in the hot tub. I love the way she recapped our boring adult conversation as “yeah, so” while she sat in between us, bored in a snorkel. Very accurate representation.