Argentina

Denis’ family has been so nice to us while we’ve been here, so we decided to make dinner for them. They happen to like Yakisoba a lot, and we happen to know how to make yakisoba, so we ended up making that for them, and Brigadeiro, the treats that Gabi loves so much. We had a good meal talking with Denis’ Dad and Jenifer, and then we started packing up, because we were leaving to go to Iguazu the next day. We got into Tiete, the bus station, on Friday afternoon, and found out that we couldn’t get a ticket to Iguazu until Sunday. So we went to the capoeira academy and left our stuff there and walked around Sao Paulo for a while looking for a hotel. We walked all over the place, and it was getting pretty cold, so we stopped in a book store for a coffee and a hot chocolate. This one lady there absolutely loved Gabi. The books there were all shrink wrapped, and she kept opening up new books to show to Gabi. She spent at least half an hour with her, and gave her a polar bear key chain. We told Gabi she could chose one book, and this lady kept showing her new books with sounds and lights and pop ups and all sorts of stuff so that Gabi couldn’t decide what to get. She finally wanted a touch and feel book about animals and colors (in Portuguese) after we got that, the lady still wanted to show her more books, and finally gave her another book, Snow White in Portuguese. We decided to stay in a hotel right next to the bookstore, and went back to get our stuff from the Academy.
The hotel was really nice, with the best breakfast we have had so far, all pizza!! Just kidding, it was the usual stuff, with eggs and pao de queijo as well. After breakfast we met with Andre and went to his house for the night. He made us some delicious pasta and sauce and we watched movies, and Shelley tried to fix our poor dying computer. Then next day we ate at McDonalds, watched Ratatouille, and then made dinner for Dre’s family. Dre drove us to the bus station and then we got on for the 16 hour bus ride to Puerto Iguazu, Argentina.
We arrived in Argetina the next day on Monday around 3 in the afternoon, it was really not that bad of a bus ride at all. We decided that the longer bus rides give you more time to recuperate because we arrived with the most energy after any of our bus rides. We have just spent the past few days(1 and a 1/2 walking around the town Puerto Iguazu) we decided tomorrow is the big day we will go see the big falls. We think it might take two days so we will just have to see, they say you only pay half the second day so if we can not do it all in one day we will extend it for sure. Today we went the point where you can stand and see all three countries from the river(Argentina(where we are), Brazil and Paraguay. It was neat they have little obelisk painted in the colors of the respective country. It was neat, but we are a little sad because we are not sure if we are going to be able to enter Paraguay because they say we need a visa and we are not sure if we are going to spend the money to go for just one day. Well we will update more after we have seen the falls.
Gabi has a few new odd habits. First, she has been saying to us, when we do something she doesn’t like “you can’t do that until Barnyard Dance,” which, along with being a book by Sandra Boyton, is apparently a time of day. This has replace her old thing she did when, for instance we were kissing her, she would say “You can’t kiss me, by Sandra Boyton.” She will also, at pousadas, lay with her head on one bed, and her feet on the other, and when she is face up she’ll say “SpiderMan,” and when she’s face down “SuperMan.” And now she will tell us “I have on question, than I have 3 questions, and then I have 4 questions.” And then she’ll just tell us things, and not ask any questions.
Good luck Katie we are way excited for you and I think tucked in with a belt is the best way to go!

Sorry no pictures the internet here is really slow.