We arrived in Valdivia without any problems. We were able to book a hostel which was fortunate because it was indeed a holiday weekend. About every place was booked by the time we arrived. Now I'm not sure what holiday was being celebrated, but we were told there are many nontraditional ones throughout the year. Seems like a good excuse for three day weekends.

We decided to hop off the tour bus in Pucón and stay another week. We found another hostel (couldn't get out of this one fast enough). It was called Ecóle. Not only was it a great hostel, it had a vegetarian restaurant inside! We were about to get spoiled!

I toyed with idea of writing one sentence for this blog entry. It was, "Today we climbed a volcano." Enough said. But my job (as I see it) is to document our travel adventures with more than just pictures. I'm not much of a writer (insert gasp here) and I leave the creative writing to the boys in the family. I just try my best to create a record of our experiences and let our followers know where we've been even if it means subjecting you all to my overuse of commas, (and parenthesis) and the word 'amazing'.

That said, onto our adventure.