The black lung

Girls are dumb. Exhibit A their immune systems are weak. Exhibit B they have the kooties. Some of the ladies on the trip managed to get some sort of sickness, ¿who would get sick in the middle of winter?, and felt that they should share the love. So most of yesterday was spent in bed sleeping and trying to recover. Dave, Matt, and I went to the market for an hour yesterday and looked at all the small artisan stands but most everything in Chile is closed on Sunday. Instead of hanging around we ended up going to, the always not as delicious as in the states but still makes you feeling like you have eaten an entire weeks worth of garbage, McDonald´s and then the grocery store. Once we got back to the cabañas nap time became a neccesity, while the rest of our friends went to the orphanage. They say the kids were wonderful and I believe them.... but we didn´t want to risk getting the babies sick so we stayed home(we do have hearts sometimes). Last night everyone grilled out food, we made burgers, and it remained a relatively calm night. We watched Mission Impossible 3 and also Disturbia. During MI3 Dave and I took our temperatures using a thermometer that looked like a duck, precious I know. Dave scored somewhere in the 99´s, we think it is coming down, and I managed to come in with an almost healthy again 98.8. Matt has yet to get the sickness and we hope he doesn´t, but Dave and I should be healthy in the next few days (pretty much just have naging coughs). Parents don´t worry we are well medicated and sleeping often. Currently I am sitting next to my professor´s 9 year old daughter in the library creating baby ponies on ponystars.com. It´s really an amazing site you should check it out. We shall see if I can keep my baby fire pony alive for the next few days, have your fingers crossed.
Adios,
Stretta