Surfing Sunday

This morning my friends Aaron, Mike, Nick, Nik, and Allison and I had plans to get surfing lessons from a friend of one of the Chilean students.  She met us at our hotel at 11:30AM like planned and walked us a few blocks to her friend's pick-up truck.  We thought we were going to take the city bus to the beach so this was good since we didn't have to pay anything.  We got to the beach were the surfing lessons were being held and the two people who brought us said goodbye and left.  So we were on our own at a beach however many miles away from our hotel.  We went to the front desk at the beach and managed to tell them that we wanted surfing lessons.  We got in our wetsuits and they gave us our surfboards.  After a few warmup stretches we were out in the water learning how to surf.  I thought it was going to be very difficult and that I wouldn't be able to do it, but it was a lot easier than I thought.  It was an awesome feeling when I was able to catch my first wave.  We probably surfed for about three hours before we had to give our gear back to the store.  We walked to the closest bus stop since we were on our own and we had to find the right bus to get back to our hotel.  We got on the first bus that came to the stop and it dropped us off near the hotel.  After walking around the town we eventually found our way back to the hotel.  We felt so accomplished.  We then we to get empanadas since we were so hungry from surfing.  After the empanadas we went back to the hotel to relax a little and to get cleaned up.  Later on we went to Tierra del Fuego for a gourmet dinner.  The restaurant was right on the edge of the ocean so we had a great view out of the windows.  The food and dessert were great.  Once that was over we headed back to the hotel and have been just relaxing since we got back.  Tomorrow we have to present our company projects to the Chilean professors and students.  I hope they enjoy our presentation.