Yay!

After three months of no rain, it's now pouring outside. Yay! Who wants to go out in pouring rain?! I'll write to you instead.

General elections are taking place here this coming Sunday. We don't usually get into politics, but talking with friends is very disconcerting as to what some candidates want to do...but then again, it seems to be that way almost anywhere. I'm just looking forward to not getting any more recorded phonecalls from candidates for whom I can't even vote.

Yay! Burger King has arrived at the mall,
and Subway has a place on the street just a couple minutes from where we live.

I know for most who read this, neither place is special...but for us it's a taste of the states. And I know we shouldn't eat fast food, but it's still nice to have some new choices. We've been out to eat with friends from church these past few Friday evenings, but they like to go to nicer places.

Last Friday it was my turn at the doctor's office. In a recent test he was concerned that I may have a cyst on my kidney, and wanted further testing so I had to do an ultra-soound. I joke with everybody here that we wanted to know if I was carrying a boy or a girl. Anyway, after drinking fifteen cups of water, then having a lab tech pressing hard on my abodmen with that camera thing they use (while I gripped the sides of the examing table) they found no cyst. Yay! Worth all the discomfort just to know for sure.

Last Saturday, Sue was baking a cake and finishing up decorations and all the details for a baby shower at church. It was decided in the past, with so many babies being born to families from church, to do showers for just the first baby. For Julimara and Manoel (who have two little boys) this was the first girl. Since they had nothing for a girl, it was decided to give them a little help. And just in time too, because Lais arrived on Monday morning. Yay for the parents of a cute little girl. Back in August, as part of Family month, we were supposed to start a seminar on parenting. The guy in charge of leading it had to take a six week intensive course in crime scene invesigation in São Paulo at the time, so the parenting course was put off until mid-September. There are now fourteen young couples taking the course. In talking with them, they've commented on how little they really knew about parenting and how much the course is helping them. Yay! Worth the wait.

It's mid-afternoon on our "day off", and it's so dark I can hardly see. Good tme for a nap! Tchau!