Last few days of the Olam adventures in S America

So, our 7 months of travels are coming to and end with mixed feelings.  It has been such a colourful and rich experience with much learnt, many new friends made, and probably most of all, so much time together as a family.  But we are looking forward to seeing friends and family, eating vegemite & weetbix, watching cricket, not living out of backpacks, or riding crowded buses.

We left Oz all those months ago as three, and now we are returning four :

Today we catch our Lan Chile flight back across the ocean to Adelaide.  We will be leaving on Sunday evening and arriving Wednesday morning, local time! We had a huge brunch with the Kings and are now packing and tidying up things.  Here are a few images of the last few days here in Santiago.
We worked with Kaleb and Forrest to start a junior-youth group where their sister Noel goes to school (and mother Ingrid teaches)...

Visited with Javier, Sol, Sophia and Matias Duhart to record some songs in Javier´s home studio... 

Travelled incessantly around the city on the buses and metro, with frequent pauses to climb trees and visit playgrounds.

 

Met up with various friends old and new.  Including one of Dan´s highschool classmates (from Atlantic college), Manuela Janssen, who has lived in Chile for the last 15 years.

And Felipe Duhart and Cristina Lopez who we had met last time round in Santiago.

Bill Slatter from Australia and his house mate, Vicky.

We also were able to help out at some open days at the National Bahaí centre doing some singing... and a fair bit of playing...