Howdy Family and Friends! Greetings from Brazil! Today we woke up around eight in the morning (five our time) and had breakfast with the other area reps downstairs in the lobby of our hotel and then it was off to meetings to discuss STS information and changes that will be happening next year. We also met the General Manager from Sweden STS. It was a great time!
Following our meeting, we enjoyed a lunch of Filet Minion or Grilled chicken with a lemon juice sauce and rice and French fries. I had the chicken and Dave enjoyed the steak. It was almost 2:30 when we finally sat down to enjoy the lunch though!
When that was finished, we were allowed to go out on our own. Dave and I went shopping in the tourist areas of Copacabana and ended up at the beach of the Atlantic Ocean. The sand was so nice and warm on the feet and the water was so cold!!!! But after walking in it for about 5 minutes, the feet got used to it! Some of the waves splashed clear up to our waist and almost knocked us over!
Like youngsters in love, we drew in the sand with a stick our names and the date! (See picture below!) While we were there a pigeon also decided to follow me wherever I went. He must have thought I had something good to eat! Too bad for him!
On the way back to the hotel, we went into another grocery store just to look around and found the most interesting meat counter we have ever seen. The meat is laying on ice and you “paw” through it to decide what you want…and then around the corner, the fresh fish are laying on the ice staring at you just waiting for you to choose them! Quite a site to say the least!
About 4, we met up with Thiago again and headed to a much nicer mall where I scored a pair of Brazilian flip flops—very comfortable! We also enjoyed some Brazilian ice cream and then headed back to the hotel to meet up with the group to go out for supper and to a Bossa Nova!
We all piled into taxis around 8 p.m. and headed to the Veloso Bar where the famous song "The Girl from Ipanema" was composed. It was written by a man with the name Vinicius de Moraes. Tonight's performers included a very talented man play the guitar that I am holding below! What an honor! He came up to me and said, “Here, would you like to try it?” **I think my brother Jon would be jealous!** So of course we took pictures with it instead!
After finally getting our meal about 10 p.m., we enjoyed music late into the night! We left the Bossa Nova early and headed back to our hotel! We got very lucky and caught Grandma Busch online so we were able to chat with the kids and then my Brazilian and Swedish/German girls were online and so I skyped with them as well! Overall a fun day to be had! But, the clock reads 2 a.m. (only 11 p.m. back home) and we are leaving our hotel to go to Petropolis tomorrow with Thiago to take in the sites there and a Brazilian wedding! From my Brazilian Picture window to yours, have a great day!
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