As traveling goes, plans changed once again. We missed our bus to the mountains, walked around Mendoza in the hot sun looking for a hostel when Monica finally had it and dropped her bag and called a cab to the nearest open hostel. That night, we were on the terrace making up songs and drinking an unthinkable amount of beer, when a group of chilean painters came out and joined the party. Immediately, they picked up any nearby instrument they saw and jammed. Kristin got in impromptu harmonica lesson. She learned it´s all about moving those arms and respirating like no body´s business! Without really knowing why or what they do, we were invited to paint with them the next few days. We woke up late, weird right, and met them at a near by city building, called the Municipulidad de Godoy Cruz. There, we helped finish painting a mural in celebration of the bicentennario anniversay 2010, commemorating Chile and Argentina´s independence from Spain. We painted with people from Canada, France, Brazil, U.S., England, Argentina and Chile. The next day, we returned to paint, but in a more rustic part of town. This building was an old school building and the mural we painted was to help inspire learning, reading, music, art and creativity for the kids. We later came to find out this group, called Colectivo Brigada Ramona Parra (BRP), travels the world painting murals depicting history, peace, justice and human rights for the people. It was truly incredible to be a part of this and meeting this amazing politically charged group of people! It was all by chance of circumstance and we thank them for sharing the experience with us! They were just invited to paint in Barcelona, Spain in October! We wish them the best of luck and hope to see them and their art in the U.S.!
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