Saturday, January 7, 2023

Santiago last day

 

Our last day of vacation today, we leave tonight to go home.  We decided to pay an extra $40 to have our room until 4PM, we are planning on being outside today and it is going to be hot, a shower will be needed before we get on that long plane ride.

Someone tenting right on the main pedestrian walkway in the morning

When you are up early it is so quiet, especially on a weekend


Huge nativity scene in the main square

Walked to the central market.  Lots of vendors just setting up






The market is full of restaurants as well, everyone trying to get us to stop for breakfast


The cathedral is open today, so we got to visit

THese were life size, I can't imagine moving them, they must be so heavy



We walked around looking for the free museum that we had seen on the walking tour earlier.  Turns out it was kinda free, Andre was free because he was over 60, I think Wendy was $2.00
Arianna would have loved this, too big to bring home



This birds of CHile display was really nice

Photography part of the museum

Next another walk in order to Santa Lucia Hill



View from Santa Lucia Hill.  In the distance you can see where we took the funicular the other day up the mountain



Lunch break. $10 for a soup, main and dessert (Jello)










Last ice cream break

Very fast taxi driver to the airport.  The pickup date at the hotel was mixed up and he was about 30 minutes late picking us up, I think he made up the time on the drive!  No traffic today as its the weekend.  

Red eye home, but it did go pretty fast.  Customs was a bit of mess in Toronto with luggage, but we did make it in lots of time for our connection, many missed theirs.  We got in early to Toronto and I don't think they were ready for us, computers were down, and they made us pick up our  luggage eventually after a bit of a wait.  Passed the time for us as we had a 3 hour connection.

End of an amazing trip, now on to planning the next.

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