We are Chillianaires!

Trip Start Jul 09, 2008
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Today we moved into our apartment :-) We had to pay the rent in cash so we made our way to a bank and after a few attempts managed to get out enough cash. We were walking around with $1,000,000 in our pockets. It was nice to be a millionaire, albeit a chillionaire. That's only about US$2,000.
 
The views from the apartment are just so amazing. It had rained on Sunday so it was super clear. It's not actually 180 degree views, it's more like 270. We can see over the whole city. We didn't take any photos that day because we were expecting it to be the same everyday. Unfortunately though, the pollution is very bad here because the mountains stop it from being blown away. So unless it's been raining, it's quite hazy. We're waiting for another good day to take some nice pics.
 
The apartment has 2 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. The weird thing is one of the bathrooms is tacked onto the side of the kitchen. The only way to get to it is through the kitchen. It's very weird. We keep wondering if Chileans just get the urge to shower half way through cooking a meal or something.  
 
We found a nice little restaurant down the road called Happening. We thought that was very apt, a lot of cool stuff is happening to us so we headed down there for dinner. Great steak, as seems usual for Chile.
 
The views from the apartment at night were just as spectacular. It looks like Xmas lights sparkling across the entire city. So we sat outside on our patio with a nice bottle of wine and took it all in. What a great day. We love Chile.
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