Family Vacation

In the summer of 2009 me and my family went to Algarrobo, one of my favorite beaches, I spent many summers of my life on that beach, with my friends from school usually, but this time was with my family and was one of the best vacation we spent together and was even more special because my little cousin Vicente was invited, we were the six members of my family (my parents, my three younger sisters) plus Vicho.

Algarrobo is not far from Santiago, it’s like an hour and a half drive, but my cousin lives in Paine, so, early that day we went to look for him at his house (which is about 45 minutes from Santiago) and then we went Algarrobo, we were more than an hour and a half in the car, but it was a nice trip.

Then we got to the apartment that my parents had rented and during this great week, we watched movies, cook different meals, played a game every night and also took advantage of the huge pool in San Alfonso, the truth is that we spend more time in the water than in the department, people says that San Alfonso’s pool it’s like the biggest pool in the world and one particularly thing that I liked was that this huge pool was next to the sea, so, you could be swimming and also watch the sea.

Anyway, these have been the best holiday I have spent with my family, was a great way to end my school years and a great way to start college.

Painted faces

In this photo I’m with two great friends, Sofia and Consuelo, we have known since we were four years old, we were in school together and even today, after leaving  the school for almost four years, we still friends.

That day, I remember I called the Sofi and said I wanted to go see her, when I gotto her home, she was painting her sister’s face with watercolor pencils, I liked how it looked so much that I also asked her to paint me, a few minutes later Consu arrived and she wanted to get her face painted too, after that, we both were painted  and we decided to paint Sofi’s face too, what we paint on our faces has no particular meaning, shapes and colors are chosen randomly.

Then, after we all had our faces painted, Sofi’s little sister took us a lot of pictures, but this one it’s my favorite, because we appear spontaneously laughing.

Besides I like the photo because it reminds me that day that I had a really good time, reminds me that summer, it was the best I've had in my life, we went together to Algarrobo beach with more friends from school and had many adventures, I remember with great affection that holiday, the people I met, the moments lived, places we visited, I’m very happy that after school, I still have contact with my friends, going on vacation with them it’s one of my favorite things…nothing spoils the memory, not even the great earthquake of February 27, 2010!