Prepping for the Holidays and Beyond

With the school year coming to a close, we are about to begin the nomadic stage of our time in Brazil. We give up the security of our little house in Campinas tomorrow and begin roaming the countryside. Though we have only been here for 4 months, “Casa Oito” has served us well.

Lot’s of things, like baths, had to be improvised as we adjusted to Brazil.

But, all in all, it’s served both human and monkey well.

Our last days have been busy packing and getting ready for travels. We have put some stuff in storage, sold off the small appliances and other things that we purchased for the house, and have packed the rest to travel. John has also been busy. He’s sold all of his duplicate “Go-Go’s”, small plastic characters that he has been collecting. In a complete shocker to us, he came back yesterday with R$15 in his pocket after going door-to-door in the neighborhood selling his toys.

In between packing and cleaning, we have also had some time to get ready for the holidays. We saw Santa in the mall the other day. CC decided that a ride on a motorcycle was more interesting than meeting with Santa.

But John had a long list of things to work through with Santa. No worries that this Santa spoke only Portuguese, somehow they worked things out.