Last Full Day in Chile!

The day has finally arrived, it is officially our last full day here in Chile, and I have no idea how the time has gone by so fast! It honestly seems just like yesterday when we first got off the plane. These past two weeks have been the best two weeks of my life! Our final day was especially good; we went horseback riding on the beach and through the sand dunes in a small town about thirty miles up the coast from Vina Del Mar, and the bus company found my wallet! That was really lucky, and it made my day a whole lot better. Anyway, I have only been horseback riding once before, and I was only like eight years old at the time. So due to my lack of experience with horses, the guy decides that it’s a good idea to put me on one of the fastest horses they had! He only told me this about thirty seconds before we started galloping at full speed with the horses. I was really surprised when my horse just took off. It scared me, but I got the hang of it after a while and was able to control my horse. We rode the horses for a solid three hours. My back and legs were getting so sore. We had a small break up in the sand dunes for about twenty minutes before heading back down to the beach and back to the ranch. It was cold out and I think I’m really starting to get a cold now, but riding the horses through the beach and sand dunes is well worth it—as a side note, I was the only one to fall of my horse! Anyway, once we got back the people had prepared a huge barbeque for us. It was late in the afternoon so I was dying to eat. Our lunch was perfect and they had a small fire going so we all sat around it roasting marsh mellows for an hour after we ate. This was a perfect way to end a perfect trip. However, we still had to go and eat pizza for our last meal together. We went to a fancy pizza restaurant to have dinner with our whole group, as well as, all the Chilean students we met throughout the two weeks. The pizzas were delicious and now were all back at the hotel writing our blogs and waiting to go out one last time with the Chilean students!