Welcome

Hello everybody!

Lee wanted me to write the first post on our blog, so here it is. We've been in Chile almost two weeks, and we're just now starting to have time to breathe. That is, we'd have time to breathe if the air weren't so polluted. Lee has a cough, which we think is due to the air. Here in Chile they have an inversion that lasts the entire winter. Due to the fact that it hasn't rained for several days, the air quality is low, so that we can't see the mountains around the city. I've never experienced this phenomenon (although my parents yawned when I told them – the weather is the same as in Los Angeles).

I want to leave you on a good note, so here's a little story about bread. Yesterday Lee, Mike and I went to the Jumbo (like a Super Wal-Mart without the "Home & Garden" section and with more food in its place) where we bought two loaves of "pan de campo" for just 340 pesos each – about 75 cents! Today I went to a bakery on my way home and bought three Berliners. They're rolls with a sugar icing or manjar inside. They only cost 300 pesos each.

OK, Lee wants to translate the post, so wait for him.

Seeya,
Maritza