Monday 20th October – Vicuna
On the Monday we relaxed in the morning then headed into town. I spent a little bit of time online and then met Mum and Dad in the centre square where we people watched and read. You could hire bikes and cars propelled by undersized electric batteries and it was hilarious watching the Chilean kids trying to make them go faster and crashing. That really wasn´t meant to sound so sadistic. I was actually quite pro-kids at this moment in time, rather than my usual interactions with them.
Whilst in town we went to the Museo Entomologico E Historia Natural (Natural History and Insect museum). There were big bugs and natural history type things which were really interesting. Okay, so that was perhaps the most redundant sentence on my blog so far!
Back at the campsite we relaxed and had a swim. In the evening Dad did the funniest thing with the torch. I´m cringing at describing this already as I think it´s one of those, “you had to be there”, moments, but I´ll tell you anyway. So, basically, there was a little torch in the van and Dad was playing about with it. As he was turning the top he said, “It´s really quite clever this as if you turn it too far…” and at that point the top kind of sprung off and flung all its innards all over the floor. Mum wasn´t far behind the torch innards in fits of laughter and my eyes were streaming! And if you didn´t find that funny, “I guess you had to be there”. Either that or you´ve spent too much time with Astronomers thinking of witty acronyms!