Off to Brazil

My trip to Brazil was July 1-July 16. We left on July 1, from the Charlotte airport. After saying goodbye to our families, we flew a very long 9 hour trip to San Paulo, Brazil and arrived around 7:00 a.m. (Brazil time). The time difference is only one hour, yet we we're all exhausted from a long night on a plane with fussy children and seats that were impossible to sleep in. After arriving in San Paulo, we went through customs and spent about three hours in the airport waiting on our buses. We then took a six hour bus ride from San Paulo to Curitiba. The bus ride was actually more comfortable than the plane ride and I spent the whole six hours sleeping, besides the thirty minutes we took for lunch. Food in Brazil is interesting. The meat is really cheap. We we're able to eat all you can filet minion and picania (a type of steak) for about $7.00 (U.S. currency). They had a lot of bread, cheese, meat, and dairy. I don't think I had one vegetable the whole time I was in Brazil. We mainly ate at Buffet styles because there we're so many people. My Church took 17 and the total Americans that we're there totaled to about 120. We all stayed in a relatively nice hotel together.