Rob's group got him tickets to the theater for his birthday so we went out Tuesday night and when we called the kids before we went in to the show they said "Did you feel the earthquake?" Apparently there was a
6.1 Richter scale earthquake on the coast that they were able to feel here (and we were too busy talking and eating to notice). Something new to worry about: go out, leave kids at home alone, have earthquake.
During the month of January there is a theater festival here called
Santiago a Mil. One of Rob's current students is Chilean and he asked a friend here "in the know" for some suggestions of shows to see. For a variety of reasons (we wanted to finally go out in the
Bellavista neighborhood without kids, one of the two actors was Argentine so I thought that I might understand it better, it didn't start too late-only 9:00), we ended up seeing
Las Heridas del Viento. We had a quick coffee and dessert before the play while everybody else was beginning to think about before dinner drinks. We had it at a restaurant in the
Patio Bellavista area which is a city block converted to a plaza with restaurants, bars, and cute shops. We realized very fast that we are not now, nor have we ever been, as hip as the people are who are heading to dinner at 11:00 in the Bellavista nieghborhood - ah well. I personally realized that I prefer going out for music until I can understand the Chilean accent much better. Finally, we both realized that with our in-house babysitter we should go out much more often! A big gracias to Kelly, Yue, Tina, Fabrizio and Juan Pablo!
A few highlights from the rest of Rob's birthday celebrations:
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| Birthday Farmers Market visit/olive fest (we had planned a hike but were too sore after the horseback riding the day before - notice that I am not sitting) |
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| A birthday apple strudel, not homemade |
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| Completely oblivious to a tremor but happy with a panqueque con manjar y helado and a cortado (decaf) |
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