A Chilean Adventure

Danielle was both disappointed and excited that she’d be spending her 21st birthday in Chile. It’s not the wild and crazy night on the town in Madison with all of her friends, but it was our first night out on the town without Marcelo to show us around. We definitely played up the whole experience!

But before I explain all of the nighttime festivities, we had some fantastic daytime celebrations as well…mostly involving cake! First, we decided to get birthday completos from Café Volcán - the same place we got them the first time. Again, they were fantastic.

Then we went to get dessert. One day when we were downtown, Marcelo pointed out the best place to get birthday cake. When we got there, we were amazed by the selection. We decided to get not one…not two…no, we got four different pieces of cake! “Pieces” isn’t really even the word for it because they were at least twice the size of a normal piece of cake. We carried home a lot of calories! Don’t worry though; we only ate one at a time.

Then it was time to get ready and go out on the town. Since the dance clubs really don’t pick up until 1 or 2 a.m., we decided to go to a nearby bar to get a drink. We didn’t even get there until after 11, so we just made it in time for Danielle to get a drink on her birthday.

We then proceeded downtown to a dance club called “Casona Verde” (Big Green House). It’s one of the favorites of the college students and we could see why. Things were really slow when we arrived (around 1am), but by 2am it really came alive. The whole place was full of people dancing to good music in English and Spanish. We have a few dance clubs in the States, but they’re nothing like in Chile. Contrary to my previous assumption, they don’t dance as provocatively as in the U.S.

The only other thing I can write about in my blog is that I made a Chilean friend, Rodrigo. We met because his friend, Erwin, is in our milk processing class. We ended up hanging out for some of the night and he explained the Spanish lyrics to me and I tried to explain some of the English lyrics to him. A Chilean friend!

So, we’ll just say that Danielle had a unique, but equally as awesome 21st birthday!