I need to start thinking in Spanish...

Today was a very eventful day, and I got to use my Spanish-speaking skills much more than yesterday.  Unfortunately it was pretty depressing to see how difficult communication is.  I'm very out of practice, but the Spanish here seems to be a little trickier than I'm used to.  I really need to brush up.

Top event from today.  We bought a high chair! (our third total high chair, which is ridiculous, but one is in transit here and the other one won't clamp to the table in our hotel without knocking the whole thing over... I don't know either), and with a 16 month old, a high chair is a complete necessity.  In fact, Sadie loves it so much that one of her favorite things is picking it up and moving it around her room and sitting in it.  Pretty adorable!

For those of you who are interested, we got the only high chair in the entire store (thank goodness it was pink!) and it wasn't as cheap as you would think...  I'm quickly learning that everything here seems to be on par with pricing in the states (or more).

The hardest part of the day was getting cell phones.  Because we don't have RUT numbers, which are basically Chilean identification numbers (kind of like social security numbers), we can't buy plans. So, we got prepaid cell phones (Samsungs with Android technology that we are used to thank goodness).  However, it took me a good 2 hours going to various places and talking to people figuring out how we needed to do it since it's very complicated.  I'm learning that things aren't straight forward like you would hope for in many ways, and it doesn't help that my Spanish is lacking.  For those of you ever moving to Chile, you have to buy a prepaid phone at a department store or electronic store, then go to the provider store to get that phone activated (and find out what the number of the phone is) then go to a pharmacy or grocery store to put minutes/data MBs on it.  Then, you can use it, but, it's again, not as cheap as you might expect.  One text is roughly 10 cents!  Guess I won't be doing that much anymore :(

Oh, one exciting thing I learned is that the peanut butter we bought was actually made in the US...