Thirsty Thursday got off (July 12th) with Salud Chile event at the VanDusen Botanical Garden. About 250 people gathered to celebrated a beautiful evening with sensational weather conditions, great wine (Casa del Bosque, Ventisquero, Carmen and Trio), chilean-inspired tidbits such as Pollo Escab Echado (chicken ceviche-style), Pork Empanaditas and Alcachofas Rellenas con Atun (artichokes stuffed with tuna and celery salad) and the eternal sounds of Andean music played by the famous Huasos Chileno's, the Galdames Brothers.
The event was sponsored by the Consulate of Chile who also donated the amazing wine selection. Thanks to Consulate, Maria Eliana Cuevas, who had a brilliant idea of donating Chilean seeds to the garden, through the University of Chile, it allowed us to inaugurate the Chilean seeds planted in the Chilean garden.
Chilepros Travel was there, to promote Chile and its neighboring countries with great success. The President, Barbara Kechington concludes the event with these words: “The interest to visit South American tourism destinations has increased in the past years. The outstanding quality of the service continues to increase. We continue to receive great feed back. Today was an amazing opportunity to experience everyones reaction." Meanwhile we gave away our catalog, along with information about upcoming event on August 21, 2007.
We celebrated among the summer mood that enjoyed this social blowout, as part of the Garden's 30th anniversary, which started three years ago. Many people from Chile and other Latin countries made their appearance and we are happy to report this.
