Chile Day 1!

Derek and I on the way to Salt Lake airport!

It's 4:30 a.m., but we don't mind. Look at the excitement! ;)

Team #1 is awesome! :)

Justin, me and Rob at the Salt Lake airport.

We bombarded the bag check around 6:30.

Me and Kyle in the LA airport before we head to South America and he flies to Asia! :)

Lauren and I at the LA airport before flying our separate ways. :)

Maren and I on the plane!

We arrived in Santiago around 5:30 Tuesday morning.

Me at the airport, just off the plane. Finally! :)

Lauren and I with our stamped passports!! :)

Our first day we went around the city and went on this cool cable-car thing up a mountain.

Matt, Derrik, Shannon, me, Lauren, Eddie

Chris, Sam, Ross

When we got to the top, we could looked over the entire city. It is HUGE and beautiful.

This is a huge statue of Saint Mary on top of a huge mountian above the spot where the city was founded. Cool! It's beautiful. It lights up at night. We hiked to the top.

Santiago.
Santiago.

Cool building.
There was actually a huge group of people protesting outside. We saw like three separate protests on this Tuesday--I guess Chilleans like to protest about anything.
The architecture here is beautiful!

And the palm trees are great also. Love them!

Hello! We went to a little restaurant for lunch and look what we found! License plates from various U.S. states, including IDAHO! :) Lauren and I are Idaho girls, so hello, we were very excited. Idaho plates in Santiago, Chile!! :)

Eddie and I tried this mysterious hot sauce!

I was scared, but it was way good! muy bueno! :)

Um... first day was successful! :)

This is is awesome!

-darcy-