Weekend of Friends and yes more baking

Chase and I had a great weekend in Santiago. Friday it rained all day so it was a very relaxing day. We did venture out to go to dinner with one of Chase's students Alex and his girlfriend Maria Jose. They invited us to go to a Peruvian restaurant called Otro Sitios in Vitacura. Viticura is one of the nicest districts in Santiago, full of beautiful neighborhoods. We had so much fun getting to know them we will definitely go to dinner again!

Chase took this picture for his grandfather who has a very old MG. This car was in front of the restaurant.

Saturday was another day of baking. We woke up and I made the dough for cinnamon rolls and then made a different type of dough for pizzas. We had left over pesto and red sauce from the Chicken parmigian so we made two different types of pizzas that were incredible.

Chase helping

rolling out the pizza dough

chicken pesto pizza

Chase with the chicken cheese pizza in his new t-shirt that says Full time Merrell Athlete he is really excited about the shirt.

After cooking away all day, we headed to the new Gringo sports bar in Provedencia to watch the Texas game. The old Basic bar where we had been going, moved to Provedencia. This is great for us because now we can walk.

We were not at the bar for long because we had plans to meet up with Lollie and Polo, the couple we met a couple of weekends ago. I am so glad we agreed to go out with them. We went to a bar called Opera Cathedral, which was in a very neat part of town and was located in a beautiful old building with a terrace on the roof. After having a drink on the terrace we headed down to the second floor to listen to a gypsy band. I was little skeptical but they were great. I really enjoyed the concert.

The band

We ended up staying and dancing till around 3:3o in the morning when we realized that if we wanted to make it to church we needed to go home.

Sunday was yet another great day for us. Through Liesl, a good friend from college, I got in contact with some chilean missionaries who invited us to attend their House church.

We had a little bit of a rough time getting to the house because it was outside of the where the metro runs, so we had to take a cab. Unfortunately, we got into the wrong cab that morning we got a crooked cab driver who robed us of all the cash we had on us. First of all I am pretty sure he messed with the meter, because it was double what the cab ride should of cost, then I handed him 10,000 pesos and he claimed I only passed him a 1,000 it was horrible. Although it was painful lesson we learned a lot from this experience. I guess we have been lucky that it has not happened before, but it was still really frustrating.

We had to let it go as we walked into the house. Once in the house we met the nicest people. The service was completely in Spanish so we understood about every 50th word but I think in the long run it is going to good for us. After the service some of the missionaries offered to give us a ride home with another couple from the Dominican Republic. On the way home they offered to take us to lunch to get know us better. We a great lunch and had fun getting to know some other Christians. It was so funny Chita and Frank are from Memphis and actually knew Jamie's Father and went to school with him.

Chita, Elaine, Federrick, Me, Chase, and Frank

Sunday afternoon we made pizza again for dinner and what better for desserts than some cinnamon rolls. Yes, I can honestly say I have never baked so much and I promise this is not going to turn into a cooking blog. I am just so proud of myself! If you want to try these the recipe is from thepioneerwoman.com. I did not use her icing and I cut down the recipe.

Chase enjoying a cinnamon roll!

Lastly, today we had lunch with another couple from Arkansas who are in Chile to serve for six months. They were fun to meet and hopefully we will be able to get together with them again soon.