News of the Day, Chile update

Ola!!  Greetings from Chile!
We have a few extra minutes this afternoon to write.  We have been so busy.  Up late & Up early.  We are in Salamanca now.  Last night we set up the balloons at a stadium in Illapel.  Most of the time it has been windy and we have to do the best we can.  We have a lot of help though.  This morning we set up the balloons at a stadium here in Salamanca.  We tethered some rides for a couple hours.  We are going back there tonight.  They want the balloons to fly but looking at the wind right now it seems doubtful.  Then we will try to do a glow.

A few of the people in our group speak English but we are getting good at hand motions to direct people.  The people are so good to us, thank us for being here.  The links below are are a few of the media sites.  there is a video clip of the first flight by the ocean.  Some of it is English and some Spanish.  Danny is interviewed in the video.  The video they was taken from our balloon.  
http://www.chilevision.cl/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=335734&Itemid=81
http://www.diarioeldia.cl/

We have been fed very well..............in this town we eat at the hotel where we are staying.  I have never had such good service.  They just stand and wait to see what they can do for you.  They drink a lot of sodas at meals.  No Ice Tea.  They drink hot tea but don't seem to use ice in abundance like we do.   Now that we are inland away from the coast the food has changed.  More hearty.  At the coast lots of fresh fish. 

I think tomorrow we will get a day off.  That we need to reorganize things.  Moving around from hotel to hotel, you get disorganized real fast.  never can find anything.  We need to find a laundromat too.  So I'm sure that will take most of the day...............we always travel in a 12 pass (full) van so we never have an opportunity to go off and do things like laundry by ourselves.  The European pilots get here on Feb 2nd.
You might try doing a google search on "chile balloon tour" for more info, I haven't had a chance to do things like that.  Write back if you wish.  We'll try to write every couple days.
Adios,
Danny and Wendy