Last night I got a full night of wonderful sleep. I got up before Brandie, so I decided to go ahead and take a shower. I got all my stuff ready and turned on the shower…and water came squirting up over the glass doors! I quickly turned it off. Turns out there is a hose attached to the shower head which has another tiny head out of which also comes water. I moved it so that it was pointing down into the shower and tried again, successfully. After a refreshing shower, I sat out by the big windows in the main living area and read while waiting for Brandie to have breakfast.
Nece, the maid, had laid out a nice breakfast for us. We each had a grilled cheese sandwich, which we have decided is probably going to be our go-to meal while in Brazil, some fruit and frosted flakes. There was also this bottle of what turned out to be liquid yogurt. Brandie enjoyed that, but I have a problem with liquid yogurt. I have never been able to stomach our go-gurts or the like in the US either. But, I still tried a little bit. I am trying new things, however, b/c I never know when I might fall in love with a new food. For example, in Israel I loved the sesame cakes they had at many of the hotels, so much so that I even took a bunch home with me! I am on the prowl for this trip’s sesame cakes, if you will. I also tried a new fruit, either a mango or papaya, we weren’t sure. Anyways, when I picked it up, I noticed that it smelled like perm solution. I made Brandie smell it and she agreed. I had already touched it, so I decided to eat it…and it kind of tasted like perm solution as well! I ate a large portion of it, hoping to get over the smell, but I couldn’t. It makes me wonder if there is extract from that fruit in perm solution, and so those of us who have never had the fruit before, don’t realize its fruit origins. I also had a few pieces of fruit that looked like very large grapes. They were a bit tart, but good.
Now I am sitting by the windows again, typing while Brandie takes a shower. When a breeze comes, it is actually quite cool sitting here, but when the breeze fails to come, it gets rather warm. There are two cats here in the apartment, two fluffy cats, one of which is all white and the other has some gray. The name of one is Oliver, but we can’t remember the name of the other one, so I call it Kitty or Bernie, which is the name I have given it. We are going to leave in a bit to go to a zoo down the street. Then we will come back here and Alanna will be taking us somewhere. Hopefully we will be able to get on the internet soon as well, so that I can actually post these entries!!
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