Ever since i found out that you could go on a ´real´pirates boat in Paraty, the weather has been losey. I loe priates and we even had a ´dress as a pirate day´at work once. However due to the actiities on thr tri being snorkling and swimming this is not fun in such cold weather.
The sun has gone and we are freezing. I think we are not really freezing but because we are on holiday we persist in wearing next to nothing to continue the illusion of relaxing in the sun and are thus cold. Today though i admitted defeat- i wore thermals under my jeans- which weirdly enough i took off to sunbath during a patch of sun (should i add here that i was wearing a bikini underneath?) Its hard to survive the 17 degree warmth when the sun is in. How on earth will we cope in minus 4 in Minnesota?
The real reason for this entry is to let you all know that Paraty was nice, very nice, and we are excitedly moving on tomorrow to Belo Horizonte to work on the New Destiny farm. Since this is Brazil, they have buses leaving at 5.20, 9.20, 10.20 11.20 etc, and due to the connecting bus, we must get the 5.20 from here. A 7.20 or 8.20 would have been great but no. It will be a day of 11 hours on a bus and one change. The buses are comfortable here though so it should be fine except i am the travel sick travller, so i cant read or do anything but look out the window! I do have my special-needs-anti-sickness-bands with me, which i´ve never tried, but am not sure if an 11 hour journey is the place to try them out. However i did nick 3 sick bags from the plane.
Paraty is lovely, will put pictures up asap, we have spent out time wandering (now a legitmate activity- almost a profession), reading lots (nothing outstanding yet), playing silly games on the i-touch (thanks Fran) and generally talking with each other. It has been boring at times, but really nice at others just to enjoy each others company. The place is full of boutique shops and resturants, and the afore mentioned dogs.
We will have to develop a scoring system for the towns soon. Some complicated equation taking into account days of sun, ply of napkins (i´m thinking the lower the better), architecture
and quality of games we made up whilst staying.
On a sader note, the white plastic watch i got for my birthday 3.19 from Argos, is already broken, but have managed to fix it up. Also there really is no access to Neighbours yet. But really i NEED to know, what is going to happen about Steph and the baby. If anyone know please fill me in.
Will let you all know about the farm asap.
1 comment:
Hurry up with the photos Sis.
Also were you tipsy when you wrote this or were you hands frozen so solid you couldn't type? I have never seen so many typos and spelling mistakes from you. Although you are supposed to be enjoying things there so don''t worry about your spelling.
I can't think of anything worse than an 11 hour bus journey.
Sorry to hear about your watch :(
I guess you could ask J about Neighbours. Oh and your niece was 6 montsh old on Sunday, can you believe it?
See ya,
Bro
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