Sunset over Vina del Mar

Mother Nature provided a great sendoff tonight with a breathtaking show of colour as the sun set. We went for dinner again to where we had the most memorable dinner a few nights ago, here in the hotel and as always found ourselves alone in the restaurant until 9:00 ;) when some of the busy weekend crowd began to arrive. We are getting used to it and it certainly does make for some great service and conversations with the servers (usually 4 or 5 of them, it seems). Anyhow, I was able to capture this as we headed back to our room although 'capture' is not appropriate as it doesn't do it justice at all but I wanted to share it. I managed two hours of walking around town today going to the markets where the locals shop and finding prices wayyyy better than what we'd been lookng at in the tourist haunts. That makes sense, I know, but most of the time we get sent to the tourist spots and the concierge was great about mapping out a walk for me that circumnavigated the shopping core. It was great and the best walking I've done all week as I need to be working up to the multiple rounds on the promenade deck that I hope to do daily. We board the ship tomorrow and are looking forward to seeing more of Chile and getting closer to our introduction to the penguins and various other new wildlife. All these dogs are beautiful but not something we don't have at home ;) We have had a beautifully relaxed few days here in Vina del Mar so we are rested up for serious exploring on some of the upcoming shore excursions. Will report in as we go. Take care........xoxo