Houston we STILL don’t have Internet! And we're back in Curitiba!
Natalie and I were really excited to let you all know that we were going to have access to the Internet this morning, but the cables in the attic of this complex are not being cablicious! SO… I’ve decided to update without the pics. I think I’ll do a picture post with only captions once we have Internet. I promise I will soon have a way more exciting and efficient novel of a blog! Here you all are… my past few days in Sao Paulo…
Stayed at the Hotel Tryp in Sao Paulo this weekend for the annual shareholders meeting where Natalie and I reunited with the other owners we met three years ago. We had quite the amazing dinner at what is considered one of the “Best Places to Eat” in São Paulo, “The Rubaiyat” where I think we must have had an overflow of water and wine constantly being served, as well as appetizers galore, a huge meal partly consisting of the Baby Beef from Uruguay, “sobremesas” (desserts) and café (coffe!) Pretty sure we were all in a food coma after that. Thank you Coke for picking up that bill! Lovely evening, and I surely couldn’t wait to use the gym the next day. We worked out for an excessive amount of time waiting for our papai to finish up at the meeting. HAPPY PAPAI DAY! Followed by another lovely meal at a cute little restaurant down the road… I’ll post pics of some of the best appetizers we had here soon!
On another note… Super exiting news! Nat and I visited the hospital we were born in on Saturday :) It’s called Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and it’s quite the exquisite building! The parking situation is a little strange, but otherwise quite the experience finally seeing where we were born. Loved it. Sadly I went there to see a doctor because I have been sick since we arrived here, but it was going to be some outrageous price to do so, so we reverted to Plan B, which I think worked out leagues better. Our cousins we stayed with the following night in Sao Paulo called up their doctor and he told me to pick some of this magical anti inflammatory medication up, since the cold virus is going around, he thinks that’s what I have contracted.
So I have to just let it run its course and hope the Feldene works! I bought this at some random little drug store where dogs were running everywhere and children were flying kites in the middle of the street. Super Brazilly.(Pics coming soon)
In other cool news, we saw the house our parents lived in for four years :) and us being two years, I will soon post this crazy bumpy video to facebook, as well as some pics from the surrounding area… I think Nat has actual house shots :)
Speaking of bumpy roads, I am pretty sure Nat and I are going to develop vertigo or chronic carsickness here. The people are AGGRESSIVE (Mike’s favorite word) drivers, and crazy people and crazy roads is not a very good combination. Strange that the roads are identical to ours, yet every half a second (no joke) you get some random leverage change in the pavement, it’s very stressful and quite nauseating after 4 to 5 hours. Not to mention it’s like semi-truck city on the highway the ENTIRE WAY. I have honestly never seen so many trucks on the same road at the same time. As well as the roads are smaller. It’s just very uncomfortable. I’m not sure how the people here don’t get in more accidents. I am quite nervous to have to drive around here. They're crazy with their driving. Although my dad tells me one thing they are very respectable about over here is… THE BLINKER. If you turn it on, THEY’LL LET YOU IN. LOL. So I’ll be using that excessively.
Okay I feel like I am only badgering this poor beautiful city… it’s a rainforest of a drive. GORGEOUS. Everywhere. It’s so green here, it looks like the movie Jurassic Park and there are a gregarious amount banana trees everywhere. It’s stunning, the views Brazil has from just about anywhere, and well it’s the never-ending forest. I sat looking out the window today on the drive back to Curitiba from Sao Paulo at sunset, and was shocked at the way the light makes everything look. I tried hard to think about how to describe it for all of you (as Arizona has the most beautiful sunsets) but I am not sure I can do it justice. It’s absolutely incredible. The brown trunks of the trees turn a highlighter brown and the surrounding greens get a shade darker with the sky turning a multitude of colors. It’s as if the whole place has just been rained on, yet there’s no rain. It’s a sharper contrast here at sunset. Just a beautiful new shade of colors appear, everywhere. I wish I had snapped a photo.
Hope you enjoy this entry! The rest will be far less extensive, as my pic post will be all pics once we have the ability to upload here!
This week… We will be starting classes! Super excited :) It’s been rather exhausting on our brains trying so hard to understand and learn as fast as we can in such a short amount of time. So pray for us, we would be ever so grateful. Now we’re off to a lunch with our partners here in Brazil, followed by another meeting :) Hope you’re feeling better T-Squared!!!
Tchau!
