We have arrived! Chile was not the easiest country to enter. After a long but fairly smooth and uneventful 24 hours of flights, we came into this new country, eager to have our passports stamped and start our adventures! I saw the board with the American flag icon, and thought that we should stand that line. A very assertive uniformed woman directed us to another line. Following her direction, we waited in that line for about an hour. When we got to the front, the person at the passport counter told us we had to pay a fee first, and that we had to wait in the original line. After we waited in that line for another hour, along with other people who we met in the first line, we went to get our passports stamped, but we were told we had to fill out a form that we had never seen before. Another long line was forming again, but Gwen and I went back to the window, finally got our passports stamped, and then had to go find our luggage ( at this point it was three hours after we landed.) At baggage claim a couple of very cute uniformed dogs took a great interest in my blue backpack, and a very nice uniformed woman asked if I had chocolate in my bag (you are not allowed to bring food into Chile). The thought of chocolate sounded really good, but after a thorough search of my bag, no chocolate or any other food appeared. By now we were really hungry and tired, and the airport workers were very kind and helpful, brought us to our bags, helped us out, and got us a taxi for free (they couldn't find us the hotel shuttle which we later found out leaves every half hour.) But now we are here, and we had the rest of the day to nap and practice and get settled. Tomorrow we meet our fellow musicians and companions on our tour!
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