Viña Indomita

This morning we all woke up early as usual to get ready for our day.  Unfortunately, none of us were able to take a shower as we discovered the water to the hotel had been shut off.  We had to use our water bottles to wash our faces and brush our teeth.  Hopefully the water gets turned back on soon.  After we makeshift got ready we took our third company visit to Viña Indomita, a vineyard.  A worker at the vineyard gave us a tour of the wine cellar and told us about the process of how the wine is produced.  After the tour, we gathered on the front patio for wine tasting.  We tasted one white wine and two red wines.  One of the red wines was kept in a barrel with smoked wood chips so the wine had a smokey taste to it; this wine was my favorite one that we tasted.  We then went for lunch at a restaurant with an oceanfront view.  We ate outside in the nice weather and then had a dessert called pico cotta, which was kind of like a pudding, it was very delicious.  After lunch we walked down to the beach and relaxed for about an hour just watching the waves.  We climbed and sat on these huge rocks that were jutting out into the ocean, the waves were big and one of my friends got soaked so that made up for the water not working at the hotel.  Once we were done relaxing we went to Pablo Neruda’s house, which is now a museum.  Pablo Neruda was an important Chilean poet and diplomat.  The house had a lot of cool things in it that belonged to Neruda.  His bedroom faced the ocean and it had a great view.  I would love to wake up every morning to a view like that one.  We saw Neruda’s grave, which was not far from the house.  Today was the shortest day of the trip so far, meaning we finished the day the earliest and also had the least amount of activities.  It was nice to have a slow day for once and we have some time to catch up on sleep.  Tomorrow is our day at the spa and we get to play the Chilean students in soccer so that should be very entertaining.  We’re most likely going to lose so I just hope we can actually compete with them.