One month down...

My competitiveness managed to stay hidden until this weekend. Field day and a soccer game meant everyone was about to see my not so friendly side.

We went to El Jardin Botanico on Saturday for a picnic which was really nice. It was the first time we really had the chance to meet everyone else's families that we had been hearing all about for the last month. 

my family on the left and Kristen's on the right

The games started out with tug of war and then continued onto three legged races, an egg toss, an egg relay race and finally soccer. My team won the tug of war and was a close second for the egg relay and then we played so many rounds of soccer that it kind of evened out. The whole barefoot situation didn't work out too well as three of us walked away limping but it was so fun!

Today, still slightly limping from a jammed toe, I hobbled around the antique fair (again) with my friends Taylor and Zoe. I arrived a little before them and managed to do a loop around the fair before they got there and bought a Valparaiso license plate and a giant lock. I don't know why but I just liked them. On loop number two with the girls, we stopped by the tent where I bought my license plate and my friend Taylor spotted a folding ruler from the 1940s that caught her interest. She asked the man how much it cost and he said it was normally 5,000 pesos but because she was with me, she could have it for 4,000. 

Being buddies with a man that sells antiques. Cool. Being buddies with the Chilean man who sells antiques. I love my life.