June 2016-Brazil Part 2

The the first leg of our trip we accompanied my in-laws to two different zone conferences. The first was to Porto Seguro. We hopped on a plane and headed south.

 Porto Seguro is the point of discovery of Brazil.

 The marker that the Portuguese navigators placed.

 After spending the afternoon walking around...we hopped on a ferry boat to go to Trancoso.

 Fresh corn on the side of the road.

 San Juan was happening the week we were there so they had these cool flags lining every street.

We found a church where we could do some fun poses with the light. 

 The first of many Brazilian Lemonade. Funny story about this dinner...we were eating and then we noticed that Michael Buble's Christmas album was playing in English. We think they liked to play it because they knew it was in English but didn't know it was Christmas music.

 We then drove down this long dirt road and over some tiny bridges to get to this awesome hideaway. It is these two houses that overlook a river that feds into the ocean.

 One of the only golf courses in Brazil is found in Trancoso. Andrew had looked it up before our trip and Andrew's dad treated him to a round of golf. The girls were good drivers!

 This hole you had to hit the ball to the the other cliff behind Andrew. They both made it.

 The view was breathtaking!

 Nothing like eating lunch on the beach

 In order to get to the beach you had to kayak out on the river to where it feeds into the ocean. We had the beach all to ourselves. The boogie boarding was awesome!

 This cute kid was fishing in the river. He showed us what he caught. 

 We then headed back to the city and enjoyed a dinner at McDonald's. It is big deal to eat at McDonald's in Brazil.

 I found my hot chocolate for breakfast. 

 This is a cool tapioca crepe. This is native to Bahia Brazil. You use tapicoa flour and then can put different things inside of it. I can't explain it very well but it was cool how they made it.

 We enjoyed being apart of a zone conference. It was a long day but very uplifting and fun to talk to the missionaries. Most of all it was fun seeing Andrew's parents in action!

 We were spoiled our whole trip with fun treats! Who wouldn't want ice cream in a pineapple! :)

 On our way out of town we stopped at a museum explaining the discovery of Brazil.

June 2016-Brazil Part 1

This is really late but I want to keep this blog up for family history reasons!

We were lucky enough to go visit Andrew's parents while they are serving as Mission Presidents over the Salvador South Mission in Brazil.

My mom was a champ and flew out to watch Ellie so we wouldn't have to worry about taking her on this 10 day trip.

The day my mom arrived we had a little scare. Ellie got into Andrew's razors and cut her finger. It would not stop bleeding for what felt like forever. I frantically called my dad and was trying to take pictures so he could tell me if I needed to go the ER. Ellie wasn't really phased by it until I started freaking out. Then she started running around the house with blood dripping everywhere. I finally stuck her in the bath. I wish I would have taken a picture of our house because it looked like a murder scene with all the blood. Luckily it did stop bleeding and we didn't need stitches.

When my mom arrived we did a quick trip to Magic Kingdom.

 Our flight was delayed in Miami for a few hours because the A/C wasn't working on the plane. We enjoyed these rocking chair.

 Off to Sao Paulo! Side story.....When we first booked our tickets we were going to have a direct flight from Miami to Salvador. About two months before our flight the airline called and told us they would no longer be flying to Salvador and we needed to find a new route. We were super bummed because our trip would have just been one 8 hour non-stop flight to Salvador. Instead we head to over shoot Salvador and have a layover in Sao Paulo!

Our layover turned out to be a tender mercy in Sao Paulo. Andrew's dad was born here and he has always had a special connection to the city. He was glad that he could at least say he has been to the airport of the city where his dad was born.

 Nothing like seeing advertising for Disney. Brazil actually is the number one country where tourists are from visiting Disney World.

 We made it to Salvador! When we landed in Sao Paulo it really hit us that neither one of us speaks Portuguese!! The airport was huge and we had to get a baggage and re-check in. We literally walked right on to our plane to Salvador.  When we landed we came out of a different door than Andrew's parents were expecting....we snuck up behind them and gave them a little scare! :) It was a fun reunion after not seeing them for a year.

Brother Holmes of the General YM Presidency was arriving at the same time as we were for an assignment to visit the mission next to my in-laws. So we waited for him with the Lisonbee's (mission presidents of Salvador mission). We then all went out to lunch at a fancy restaurant on the water. Then we walked around the Pelourinho (historic city center of Salvador)

We made it to Mission Home!!