The BBQ

After resting up some and showering we started the all you can eat - drink bbq at the hostel around 1030 pm. It was so great. We had wine to start with and all sat in the courtyard by the bbq under the tree lit up and the graffiti surrounding us. We ended up talking a lot to the Aussie girls, who were great! There was girl from Holland, two guys from Columbia, a guy from Brazil, the Swedish guy Martin, Matias from Argentina, two other girls from BUenos Aires, Roberto, an American named Emily and us. It wa sa blast! We had delicious sausage cooked on the pit adn then thi samazing steak, so so good. homemade chilean potato salad and then some sort of chilean beer. it completely hit the stop. then all of a sudden it went from eating to dancing the samba in the courtyard drinking pisco and coke out of a horn. God i wish i had a picture of that! but there are some pretty funny pictures from the evening. as you can imagine it only got more fun from there. we went to some bar in downtown arica and had a few drinks around 1230 before heading to a club at the beach around 2am where we stayed dancing until 5am. when we got home my ears were ringing so much and i was completely soaked with sweat from all the dancing in this packed club. but it was a riot! i would go from doing the samba with Lucas, teh brazilian guy, to the merengue with Matias, to techno dancing wiht martin from sweden. it was a riot! such such a blast.
and so today you can imagine none of us woke up at the hostel until around 11am or so. haha
and the poor brazilian, lucas, around noon. but it was fantastic! in a way im´glad that everyone is leaving today for the most part, since we leave tonight. otherwise it would be so hard to go. as it is Roberto the crazy owner and martin the swede who works here are talking about duck taping us to the chairs to prevent us from leaving (apprently they actually ahave done this in the past). haha
tonight is an overnight bus to Calama and then three days in the desert! we´re excited, but i have to say Arica has been amazing. Last night was one of the more fun nights ever!!