New Year's 2015 - Viña Del Mar

 Enjoying the beach 2 hours from Santiago, 30 minutes from Viña

 Abandoned factory

 What the coast line looks like in the day

 Did my camera really just take this amazing photo?

 Releasing lanterns

 Fireworks begin at midnight from many boats along the entire coast.

 

Christmas Day 2014

Christmas Cookie Decorating

 

  

Trip to the South part of Chile

 Punta Arenas

Located along the Magellan Straits

What monument is complete without a chicken holding lady and goat petting boy

Or a city without an extravagant cemetery with a monument to the last indigenous 

 

Interactive statues are the best kind

 

 Quick selfie in front of the Magellan Straits

Outside of town cows, alpaca, and sheep rule.

 The right time of year there are penguins!

The view as we drove to El Calafate, Argentina

 Some of the swamp land

 Ñandu (sheep in the background)

 La Pampa

 Strong wind caution road signs

Sheep ranches on the way

 Going to be sheared

 Sheared Sheep

 Mobile shepherd outpost

Glacier boat tour

Icebergs are chunks of ice that fall off the glaciers

 Size compared to a double decker tour boat

The blue color comes from light infraction from the lake

Peek-a-boo with our sister tour boat

 A hanging glacier

The glaciers carve out a path as they travel

When chunks start to fall off it is called calving

 A glacier that wasn't part of the tour

National Park - Parque Torres de Paine

The cuernos (horns) on the left and are black (basalt) and white (granite)
Paine - the middle mountain, 

The torres (towers) are on the right

 

Clear water

 Our hotel in the middle of the lake

 We saw an avalanche

 There were tons of dandelions and this red flower

 Guanacos

 Super friendly, big bird and some of his smaller neighbors

And flamingos!!!

An extra bonus was a Bentley tour that we crossed paths with several times

 

Disclaimer: These photos are a collection that my friends took because my camera was stolen on the last day of the trip. :(