Ragel and Megatron go to Chile

    Our first day in Chile was full of amazing views of the ocean, seafood, and climbing some very steep streets. The homes in Valparaiso are all multicolored, full of street art, and are all built into the hills where you can overlook the city. Since we arrived early in the morning, we found breakfast and then took a siesta in our hostel. Me and Megan are staying in a hostel up high on one of the cerros next to a beautiful church. Unfortunately there's a lot of construction going on next to us, but the hostel is an old house that is somewhat like a labyrinth. The only room they had available online was a double bed, so we got a nice big honeymoon suite all to our ourselves. Its actually really cute, and they provide a decent breakfast with eggs and cheese toast and fruit.
    The rest of the group we are traveling with are in different hostels, so we met up with them, then went exploring after our siesta to see the city from up high on one of the cerros. We walked past churches, plazas, a cemetery, and very picturesque houses in all different colors. We found lunch at the place the lady at my hostel recommended for Chilean food, so we had a seafood soup that was literally an entire bowl full of fresh caught clams, muscles, shrimp and squid, with peppers in a seafood broth. I was so impressed with how generous they were with the seafood.I also tried my first Pisco Sour, the typical drink in Chile.
    We walked along the beach to go to the fiesta de cerveza. The beaches in Valparaiso are more rocky, where the beaches in Viña del Mar, the sister city, are the places to go surfing and lay out in the sand. On the way to beer fest, we saw sea lions swimming and basking in the sun on a dock. We watched the baby sea lion trying to jump onto the dock following the example of his mother, and then watched a bunch of sea lions jump into the water. The beer fest was a lot smaller than we thought, but we tried some new beers and watched the Chilean futbol game, and ate amazing churros filled with manjar, the Chilean version of dulce de leche.
    When we left the beer fest we were amazed by the view of all the lights from the city along the shore.