Trip to La Serena

So right after I got back from Argentina, I had to take off the next morning for La Serena in northern Chile. It's supposedly a desert, but some parts of it were a little chilly, and other parts were really hot, and it didn't really look like a desert to me...Anyways, it took us seven hours by bus to get there, and we ended up staying in these adorable little cabins that looked like grass huts. In the morning they delivered our breakfast to us, and we were right next to the ocean, which we all thought was a thunderstorm before we realized that it was the waves making the noise and not thunder. The second day we went to a space observatory and I got to look through a telescope and see Saturn and the moon. And our tour guide had this awesome lasor pointer thing that could shoot light for 4 kilometers...I really have no idea how far that is in miles, but he was able to point at the stars with this thing...sadly we were all more fascinated with the lasor pointy thing than the actual stars, but...The third day we went to a plant where they make pisco, which is the alcohol they drink the most down here. We got to taste all the different flavors and see where they made all the pisco. And that same day we got to go to a restaurant where they cook everything using solar power, and we ate chicken and rice. It didn't really taste any different to me, but it was cool to see how they made it all. And the last day we all went to another national park that was like an oasis in the middle of the desert. Even though it was really hot and dry, we were up literally in the clouds, and it was like a rainforest on top of the mountains, which was pretty cool. No one really wanted to go there, though, because the night before was one of the guys 21st birthday, and there was a party that lasted until about 5 in the morning, and we all had to leave at 9. It was an ABC (Anything But Clothes) party, and let's just say it was very interesting to see everyone's "outfits"...When I finally got back home, it was really late on Sunday night, and I had to walk through the streets with my huge travel backpack that literally held all of my stuff, and I was so scared of getting robbed that I've never walked so fast in my entire life. But now I'm back in Viña, and my vacations are over for now, and I really have to start studying, because midterms are coming up soon and I haven't exactly been staying on track. Speaking of which, I have a class that just started, so I should probably go to it. Chau!