So much for Roll out the Red Carpet

Let's see this last weekend was spent at home. Sometimes you need a relaxing weekend en la casa. Friday night we had a dinner party. We sat down for dinner at 11:30, and cleared the table around 12:30-1:00am. Then we had some drinks and called it a night at a reasonable 4:00am.

(Rodrigo and Elizabeth with the spread of meats we cooked up Friday night. Notice the clock on the wall. They call me Bencito, which is kind of a joke. Bencito is like saying, Benny or Benny-boo-boo. It's a term of affection. And Oliver wrote it on my food cupboard.)
Saturday was spent playing with José Tomás and then we had some completos and a rocket for dinner. Completos are glorified hot dogs with avocados, tomatoes, red onion, and ketchup(mayo if your Chilean). In essence, they are high blood pressure, sodium, and fat content on a plate. They're good about once every other month. Any more than that and you get burned out.

(Completos and a rocket for dinner, what a classy combination)

Sunday was the big day for the Brasil/Chile soccer match. Brasil is the equivalent of the USA's Dream Team. Watching the players warm up was amazing. When they warmed up I was able to see just how talented each player was. Juan Pablo, Stefenia and I arrived to the crowded stadium 2.5 hours early and we struggled to find a place to sit. By then the Chile/Paraguay woman's game had started and we watched that. The whole time the crowd would spontaneously erupt into songs and chants. One of them roughly translates to, "If you don't jump around for Chile, then you're a bum from Brasil." Then when the Brasil players were announced the entire 80,000 people in attendance would shout, "Screw you." Once again, I am roughly translating the phrase into PG terms. It was quite funny. Then the game started and everyone was focused on the game. We came out and seemed to have control for the first 15 minutes, but then the athleticism, skill, and strength of Brasil outmatched Chile. After the game, the fans for Brasil had to wait about 20 minutes before they were allowed to exit. I guess it's a common practice to make the away fans wait before they exit for their safety(I don't think Michigan had it that bad). Nonetheless it was fun, and I'm heading back to the stadium in two days for the Chile/Columbia game.


(This was taken 2 and a half hours before the game started, it's a little different from our late arriving students in Madison)
(The Huaso Peregrino leading the cheers in the stadium before the game. This guy goes to every game, home or away to lead this cheer.

Cheee!
Laay!
Chi chi chi, lay, lay lay. Viva Chile!!!)

I signed up to run a 10k in Viña del Mar October 5th. That should make me stay motivated to run around Santiago.