What a fun two weeks we've had here in SP. Our fab neighbors from the D, the Santoscoys, came to Brazil. We did our best to point them in the right direction of things to see and do and every chance we could, we ate and ate and ate. The power of the rodizio will live with all of us for quite a while (especially around the waist!) They were troopers though. Everyday at 7:15 Lynne took part in the "death march" around the hills of our complex. Nathan even went to school for a day with Hannah and Jackson. (Check out the sand sculpture behind Lynne and Dan. They had carved Barack Obama's name into it to attract gringoes like us!)
The highlight of the trip was a three-day jaunt to Rio. We had never been so it was a great excuse to go. We rented a beautiful beach house at Mirante de Itacoatiara and then used that as our headquarters. We jumped in the ocean waves, drank a few cervejas on the beach, visited Copacabana and Ipanema (yes we..ok me...sang the appropriate tunes), boogied to a samba band on the train ride to Christo, took the cable car up to Sugarloaf and went to a hippie art fair. What a beautiful city. I wish we had more time to spend there but the kids are in school now so we had to come back to Sao Paulo reality. Jackson put together an album on Facebook with some of our pictures. Click here if you want to see it.
We are so lucky to have such good friends. We had traveled with them to Playa del Carmen a few years ago and Noah's famous quote on the last night then when we were pulling out the margaritas was "No. The party is over." We use that all the time.
It was an amazing two weeks. So many laughs. I think Hannah said it best on the last day, "Mom, it is like I have Detroit and Brazil in the same place." So sad that this party is over.
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