We woke up at 11am this morning and got ready for the day. We had a late breakfast, showered, packed and were out the door at 12:30pm. Our first stop was at The Grand Hotel at Pucon, this is the hotel that the Garcia’s usually stay at, but it was full when we were looking for a room. The Garcia’s showed me the room that they reserved and will be staying at for six weeks starting Dec 23rd. The resort was very nice, it has several restaurant, was in a good location close to town, and sits right on Villarrica lake. There were many amenities such as kayaks and canoes that hotel guests can use; there were also two pools and a gym for the guests. It looks like a nice place to vacation! Our next stop was at Park Lake Villarrica which is a 5 star resort about 10 miles from the center of Pucon. The resort was beautiful but it definitely lacked the location and it didn’t have access to a beach, only a rocky shore.
After that we were on the road and off for our three hour drive to Osorno, Chile. Osorno is a frontier city right on the boarder of Chile and Argentina. We stayed at a nice played called Sonnesta Hotel that was attached to Sol Casino. The hotel was brand new, not even nine months old, it was beautiful. Our room was huge with two queen beds (which has been hard to find here in south America, generally if you ask for separate beds in hotel rooms you get twin beds), a flat screen TV, many bathroom goodies (toothbrush, shoe polish, a sewing kit, shampoo/conditioner, etc), and even a high tech Phillips alarm clock that you could plug in a USB and play your music or display your pictures from a camera or memory card on the large screen.
Maria and I relax for a couple of hours and settled into our life of luxury. The TV had a million channels so we flipped through and watched E-Entertainment and a found a movie channel. At 10pm we went to the pool for about an hour and leisurely swam laps while talking about life. We showered in the room and got ready for dinner. Marita was ready to play in the casino and Ruben wasn’t hungry so they skipped dinner. Maria and I went to the restaurant located inside he casino and grabbed sandwiches, it was midnight at this point so they only had a limited menu. After dinner we played in the casino for two and a half hours. I played with $7,000 Chilean pesos (approx $14USD) and had fun the whole night, when I cashed out I had $8,700 pesos- a $3.50 increase, not much, but I was pleased to be leaving with more money than I started with after playing for several hours.
We went to bed at 2:30am we were both exhausted!
Love,
Katie
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