¿Qué pasa Mufasa?

This weekend my dear friend Lizzy/Lib/Eli Roehm visited Santiago, and boy did we paint the town red! Here we are on the balcony of her hostel in the Plaza de Armas:
It was so nice to chatter away (in Spanish, gotta keep practicing!) with such a good friend, and I finally got to do all the fun stuff downtown that I hadn't gotten to do yet! Lizzy and I ate salmon in the Mercado Central, checked out the view from the Cerro Santa Lucia:visited Pablo Neruda's house, La Chascona (here's some graffiti from outside that) , got ice cream with Mark, our new gringo friend from the hostel (and a fan of the Powder Kegs!), had a lovely dinner of gourmet hot dogs with my fam, went dancin, went to the museum, saw juggling and acrobatics and talked and talked and talked, what a treat. Lizzy even met a charming Chilean guy: Oh and P.S.: In Mendoza I got the nickname "Rey Leon" (Lion King) for having a lot of hair. The title of this post is a Chilean update of that nickname.