Sunday Funday

The Chilean mine rescue capsule has been making its rounds from the north of the country to the south for a few weeks now, and this week it is in Plaza Sotomayor in downtown Valparaíso. Of course I went to go check it out:

In reality, the mine rescue deserves an actual post from me, with things like memories and perspective. But I'm a day late and a dollar short, and still kind of upset that the Chilean police wouldn't let me crawl inside and  stage a photo where I'm getting rescued. 

Also went to explore a new-to-me neighborhood in town. Found a cool restaurant with this view:

As always, the pictures don't do it justice. I live in a really cool place. 

Last thing--read this Thomas Friedman column from Saturday. I like his stuff, generally, but this one is spot on. One thing I've really enjoyed down here is looking at the US from an outside perspective, and this kind of touches on that. It's Morning in India--Thomas Friedman