365 Day Project - Week 45-46

Well this is what our Christmas looked like! I was sad not to be in Canada with everyone, especially when it's 35 degrees here! However We had a great celebration with W's family and a much needed rest. I'm finished school now until the 1st of February so bring on the holidays!

A little Winter Wonderland at the mall...

Brazilian Christmas treat....

Making the house smell nice...

Christmas cookies a la Chris MacRae...

Beautiful Christmas morning sky....

Christmas breakfast table...

Mimosas...

Christmas snacks at Lucy's...

Merry Christmas!  Yes, we are wearing shorts...

Champagne celebration...

365 Day Project - Week 44

New Apartment - Part 1

Bathroom

View from the front window...

Kitchen...

All the things I have hauled across the world....and yes I am watching old Grey's Anatomy on Netflix....

Window garden...

Table and crazy green wall...

Cocktail time!

365 Day Project - Week 42-43

Wow, well it's been a crazy few weeks finally moving into our new apartment!  Pictures are coming....first though, here are a few photos from around here.

Jabuticaba Festival....a small grape-like fruit that reminds me of evergreen trees and gin.

Clouds and sunlight...

Just hanging out by the river....

Fresh fruit salad...

I see a lot of strange tattoos here but this is by far the weirdest....

Breaking out the Christmas jewelry for the kiddies...

Angry birds mural hahaha...

Champagne for the first night in the apartment....by candlelight because a storm caused a power failure!

Making Christmas cookies with the kids...

That translates to almost $5 a can for soup...uuugghhh

First batch of pancakes in the new apartment!

Favourite gift from my students....a chocolate champagne bottle!

Strangest mural......who is this?

365 Day Project - Week 41

This week we had another Bank Holiday - it's like every week around here! W had the day off so we took a little drive outside of the city. Here are some photos from that and some other bits and pieces. Enjoy!

Helpful Brazilian bus sign...."On days of rain put the umbrella in a bag to not get other passengers wet"

365 Day Project - Week 40

Wow is it ever hot!! We are into spring here and I can officially say I'm not a hot weather girl. Here are done ways we have been keeping cool. Enjoy!

A few clouds...

365 Day Project - Week 39

This week was a fairly uneventful one.  We applied for W's Canadian tourist visa so we can hopefully come to Canada for Christmas.  Cross your fingers and your toes for us!  Here are a few photos from this week.  Enjoy!

Selections from my first expat book club...

365 Day Project - Weeks 33-38 The Lost Weeks

I have returned!  Yes I am still alive and well down here in the Southern Hemisphere.  I will not attempt to excuse my absence other than to say that we are still desperately in search of a place to live and it has become a mission/second job for both W and I.  It has consumed all of our free time and our sanity and at the moment we are still looking.  Brazil is complicated....let's just say that :)  Meanwhile keep your fingers crossed for us and enjoy some pictures from my lost weeks!

I am officially Brazilian now with my bi-monthly manicure...