Thursday, December 18, 2008

Our Final Days in Pucón

Even though everyone had had a full day the day before, we only had two more days in the Lake District and wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather. What to do? There were so many options. Due to some members of the family feeling a bit on the sore and tired side, we decided to go for drive to another lake that we had heard was warm due to the volcanic activity in the area.

The drive was of course beautiful but when we arrived at the lake, we discovered that, although it was warmer than Lake Villarrica, calling it warm was a bit of a stretch. We did, however, find that there were kayaks, canoes and peddle boats for rent for about two dollars an hour. We saw some islands out on the lake and so everyone picked their watercraft of choice and headed off. Andrew and Chris got in one kayak, Morielle and Fiona in another, and Julia, Elli and I got in a peddle boat (I would have preferred the kayak, but Elisabeth was worried about capsizing). The kayaks quickly got way ahead of us, as we peddled our way towards our destination. Unfortunately, if you peddle there, you have to peddle back again. The kayakers were there and back within an hour, but it took us an extra half hour to finally make it back. We were definitely ready to eat.


Elli in our peddle boat.


So much for finding a warm lake! That's the lake we paddled out to is in the distance.

We found a nice restaurant where we were the only customers. Since everything was cooked from scratch, we entertained ourselves with fancy napkin folding and were soon joined by our waiter who demonstrated some really fancy folds. We enjoyed our meal, and headed home.


At lunch with our napkin creations.


Our waiter entertains us with some fancy napking folding.

Our last day it was raining, so we took care of laundry, wrote some blog posts, played cards, and relaxed. Tomorrow we would begin our journey home.


With rain comes rainbows.