We woke up quite late on Tuesday, maybe 10am or so and my friend was feeding her sons breakfast and informed us that her husband was still asleep! We had a very nice breakfast of breads and jams, cheese and meat (well I had the meat ) and yogurt.

After my friend's husband woke up and got ready we dropped both boys off at nursery school and headed to the Melipilla fruit market. The fruit market was insane and amazing! Over 100 farmers had come from the country-side and the fruit was so good and so fresh and so cheap! 500 pesos (a little over $1US) for a kilo of fresh grapes, 100 pesos for a kilo of green peppers, onions, watermelon, honeydew, blueberries, blackberries, carrots, corn the size of my head, pumpkin...it was amazing and we purchased quite a bit of fruits and vegetable which we would enjoy eating over the next couple of days.

Our next stop was Lider, or Wal-Mart Chile. Wal-Mart entered the Chilean market by buying Lider and kept the name but changed the store-brand products to Great Value just as in the US. My friends told us Lider, and their domestic competitor Jumbo, we quite popular as they were very cheap in comparison to the little local shops.

However, my friends said they still bought their fish and fruits and vegetable from the local market as it was much fresher than Lider.

After Lider we headed back to our friends house where Mrs. Dcstudent and my friend started shucking beans and prepared a very fresh Chilean soup full of fresh vegetables for all of us to have for lunch. The four of us had a very relaxing lunch and soon realized it was 6pm and time to pick up the kids from nursery school.

After picking up the kids we headed back to their house where we played with the kids and the dog until having a light supper and my friend went about putting her kids to bed. Afterwards, we sat around drinking Chilean wine and talking until almost 1 in the morning before hitting the sack!