Estas son las mañanitas, que cantaba el Rey David

Mendoza was chill.
We took the wine route and met a couple of other interesting travelers, including Maryanne (a forty five year old cougar from Chicago who had a Prozac problem) as well as British version of Jack Black and the four original members of Abba. The vineyards were beautiful and the wine was for the most part lovely, except that every tasting included a "young white wine" which basically meant it tasted somewhere along the lines of fruit punch with a splash of malibu.......
We left that night, well into our Malbec hangovers and rode the night bus to Santiago. Night rides are no good when you have to cross the border, imagine getting pushed off a bus at three am into the freezing cold only to wait in line for a good half an hour while a german shepard sniffs your shit and a two teenagers laugh at you. Thankfully we remembered not to take any Xanax this time.
News Flash !!!!!!!!!! We lalalove Santiago.
We've come to the conclusion that other travelers dont know shit, everyone kept telling us how lame Santiago was, but we find that the city suits us quite well. Good musuems, good music shops (including one which we think might be owned by Murakami) great vintage book stores and gellato which according to Ally tastes like butter. (on a side note i dont know when people decided that south america must be done the outdoor wilderness explorer way, fuck that shit, i could a jazzercise class at home if i wanted to sweat)
We also found a really cool park to chill at (ally thought it was a bum park because everyone was laying down, but it turned out that Chileans just love the pda park sessions, i'm almost positive that 75 percent of babies are concieved outdoors here).
Round one of Santiago was also great cause we finally got Xandre to join us!
Ally is happy to have someone besides my heart of steel and I'm glad because I now have someone to share the wine bottles with.
We took our new partner in crime to Valparaiso, everything was going great till Houdini came and stole Ally's bag. Serioulsy the asshole that stole her shit most have been good at vanishing acts because no one saw a thing.........
So basically we came back to Santiago a little defeated but Ramming On none the less.
Please have a strong stiff drink in honor of Alison's birthday today,
Cheers to the deux deuxs treating her right.