Last Saturday we went to a nice French restaurant.  President Simpson likes to take us out to dinner.  It was good but took about 2 for the food to come.  

We went out to the front of our apartment building to see the lunar eclipse.  The watchman came out with us to watch it.  He sits behind the counter that you can see through the window and opens the little gate for pedestrians and the big gate for cars.  Jackie made him some tres leches cake last night.  It was good. 

We regularly visit missionary's apartments.  I went to the Assistants(head missionaries) apartment to fix lights.  I noticed a lot of stuff in their spare room.  There were 2 tables(that we have been looking for) and lots of other stuff. So instead of working on the lights we pulled out the excess stuff and loaded up the van.  

There were blenders, heaters fans,

tables, big chair, shelves

bags and bags of old clothes and more.  I went back another time to fix the lights and found another closet full of extra stuff as well.  We like cleaning out the apartments as we encourage them to keep them clean and they are much easier to clean without all the extra stuff.  

Tuesday we closed the office at 12 and rode the teleferico(gondola) to the top of Cerro San Cristobal where the statue of the Virgin Mary is.  Our apartment looks right at it.  

Up by the statue is a place to burn candles and hang stuff on the wall.  It is an interesting collection of things that are hung here. 

When we got back to the car I took a picture of the Costanera Center(the tallest building in South America). It was a nice day.  We have only had a few days that didn't clear up and warm up during the day. 

 

We buy white boards for the missionaries apartments for planning purposes.  I am not sure these elders caught the vision.  

Today I went with 2 other men to find Condors.  Last Saturday one of them saw more than a dozen up near the Argentine border.  Today we went back there to see if we could see some. It is slow going as lots of  trucks are going to Argentina.  It climbs to a tunnel at about 10,000ft. 

We only saw one condor from a distance. We did see about 20 guanacos. They are similar to alpacas. 

We turned off the highway before the tunnel to Argentina to go up over the pass but the road had snow on it. We had to scrape snow off the gravel road to get the van back up the hill. 

    

This is Inca Lake at the Portillo ski resort . We stopped their for lunch on the way down. It was beautiful

Here is the google map view of the road.  Lots of switchbacks, lots of semis.