Apartment, and a haircut... two bits!

OK, I know that doesn't really work. But anyway, Jen and I signed a lease for an apartment today. Yeah! It is in Providencia, which seems to be right in the middle, as far as nice place to live vs still affordable. If you look at this map (PDF), our apartment is about two blocks south of the Tobalaba Metro stop (on the far right-side of the map, just below Cerro San Luis). I also started to geotag our photos in Flickr. Sometimes this page works for me, sometimes not. If it chooses to work for you, our apartment is off to the right (marked with a #13 -- click on the circle for the pictures). If not, the pictures are on our Flickr page.

The place is completely furnished. So much so, that the only things we NEED to buy are sheets, towels and a desk chair. Nearly everything in the pictures is included -- furniture, the TV in the bedroom, plates, cups, cooking utensils... even crystal if we decide we want to have a fancy dinner party for eight! It has a nice little yard (we bought a BBQ from the previous owners, both Americans), a 24-hour concierge and the back of our yard butts up against the only "American" church in Santiago. It is also about three blocks from one of the few gaming stores in Santiago. Not that I planned that or anything. grin About the only downside I can think of is that our cellphones don't work in the house -- we have to go into the yard. We move in on the 20th. I am very excited to have a desk at which to work.

And... I got a haircut. I got tired of my hair (or what was left of it), so I decided I'd try this for a while. We went to a barber down the street from our hostal. It was one of the hair places where all of the people there, employees and customers, are old men of at least 60. The guy must have used five different blades on his clippers, plus two or three different kinds of scissors, plus a straight razor. It took close to 45 minutes. And I think it cost about $6.50.

Jason