Day 3
While Steve went to work this morning, the rest of us went for yet another hike. This time we hiked a little different of a trail and ended up going along the ridge to the ruins of an old house. After our hike, Steve met us at home and we went off to spend the day exploring La Serena. We went to lunch at one of my favorite little dives- El Mundial, where we had the house specialties of merluza frita and churrasco completos. Merluza is a white fish and churrasco completo is a sliced beef sandwich with palta (avocado), tomate and mayo. We then went downtown, walked around- went to the plaza de armas and the cathedral (it was closed unfortunately), went to the archaeological museum, went to the artesian shops at La Recova, then went grocery shopping yet again. We seem to be continuing my daily Deca visits. For dinner I made chicken parmesan, a salad, and had garlic bread with an alfredo dipping sauce. Afterwards, thanks to Terry, we didn’t really have any dishes to do, and watched The Sopranos and had dessert- mendocino cookies- which are vanilla cookies with manjar (dulce de leche) in the middle and the whole cookie is dipped in chocolate. A wonderful chilean specialty. Also today, Terry and Mary Jane got to try another chilean specialty- pebre (which is basically salsa made of tomatoes, garlic, onion, olive oil and cilantro) which is served at most restaurants with the rolls/bread.
Mary Jane reading before our daily hike with the little lap dog to keep her company
more pics from Cerro Grande (may be a daily posting)
Lunch
Archaeological Museum of La Serena
new scary picture from museum
La Recova
Downtown La Serena
