Cool Weather

Today, the skies were mostly cloudy and it was rather windy. It made for a relatively cool day. The sun did peek out at some point early in the afternoon, but it did not last.

We went around the open-air market to check out what's new. I picked up some silver earrings as gifts. I also picked up another batik piece. It was one of a toucan and a parrot. I think it's a nice piece. :-)

Tomorrow, I think we will head over the Iguatemi Shopping mall. There are some nice shops and boutiques there.

One more week to go...

Yin/Yang

  Now isn't this just cute?
 

Views from the hotel

 Another shot from the hotel. Many of the apartments here have an additional shutter on the outside. This is to keep the heat of the sun from warming up the apartments. Believe me, it does get quite warm here during the day!
 

Girl from Ipanema

When people heard I was heading down to Brazil for 4 weeks for work they all thought I was going to have a great time and spend a lot of time at the beaches. Well, guess what? We're a few hours from any beaches. And it's been work, work, work and more work.

The past 2 weekends we spent trying to recover from work and late dinners. It's our only chance to really get a full night's sleep! It's not that we're partying (and we're not!). It's that by the time the shuttle drops us off at our stop it's about 6:00PM. There's really not a whole lot of time to unwind before thinking about dinner. Some nights, supper is fairly light washed down with a glass of beer (which seems to be cheap and plentiful here).

So this trip is half over. I am really looking forward to flying back home to zero-degree weather.