Bring it on!

Very full on day yesterday, just what I needed.

In brief:
- Videoed a music trio who jumped on my 'mico' and sang thier little hearts out (bought the CD too)
- Came face to face with a wall of Riot Cops with a armoured water canon as back up vehicle
- Watched a protest in support of fixing the public health system
- Saw a many thousand year old mummy and other pre-columbian artifacts
- Saw the shrine to the Patron Saint of Chile "Virgen del Carmen" in the cities largest Catherdral
- went into a cafe/strip joint, a "Cafe con Piernas"
- Got cought in the rain and bought an umbrella from a street vendor
- Ate more hotdogs (gawd I love those things)
- Had a good laugh with a once angry stranger as we crammed about 100 people into a 67 capacity micro thanks to a drivers strike
- Met a guy from LA who left Chile when he was 4 and came back for a 3month holiday 5 years ago
- Got a new piercing, a left ear industrial


So all in all a very full on wonderful day. I'd planned to see a movie but ended up chatting to the piercing dude from LA for about 3 hours so I missed the film. No great loss, was very happy to have missed it.

Today there was sunshine again and after a late start to the day I went to the Feria with my Tia Anna. I remember the Fruit Markets in Fyshwick, Canberra, were like this feria when we first came to Australia and I used to love going there with mum. But then the supermarkets started selling fresh fruit and veg and the markets had to change to compete - they had to become neater, and more sanitised and average. I miss the feria with sellers yelling their wares and anyone with something to sell setting up shop and making a $$$.

Will try to go to another feria or artisan market tomorrow. They say the one at Santa Lucia is good for Mapuche jewellry. After my visit to the Museo de Chile Pre-Colombiano I'm inspired to get myself something from these people, who's traditions are still alive today.

And plus you can never have too many shiny things.