Monday came and we all had more time in the morning. Zosia slept in and I really could not sleep beyond my usual time so at 6:20 I was up and doing my morning stretches. I may be in a strange environment, but my morning activities are like gold to me. I get up and do my 21 Qi Gong movements to open the body to the world ahead. Then read the Austin morning paper online. And do some writing. I run out of time to do my daily meditation, but I can do that when I am feeling stressful during the day if I can find a quiet spot. Iracema got up about 7:30 and we tried to communicate with our different languages. She could not find the words that I understood but she left the impression we were on our own for breakfast. I thought I had asked her if she could make some coffee and she nodded yes and went back in her room.
Zosia got up and I explained to her that Iracema had asked us to help ourselves to breakfast and she would come back out to make coffee as I could not find any coffee or a coffee maker. Did she go back to bed? She was in there a long time. So Zosia and I had a small breakfast of cereal and bread, jam, and fruit and still no Iracema. Later Iracema came out and she was showered and dressed.
No, she didn't say today was self service, she said we were going for a big breakfast at her favorite bakery. Oh what confusion these languages brings. So the joke of the day to all we meet is "Self-service" as we talk about our confusion. By the way self-service here means - buffet.
Next we are off to the stone store. Of course, I am thinking a bead shop that Zosia likes to go to to buy supplies for her jewelry business. It takes a long time to get there across town. No, this store is the palace of stones - the marketplace for crystals and gems. It is an expansive warehouse. Some of the crystals are 1200 pounds, first floor of elaborate displays of raw minerals, the second floor of polished minerals and crystals. I buy a few uncut stones that fit my fancy and Zosia goes shopping. At the end of an hour she comes down and asks me for all my cash as if she uses cash she gets a discount. She is in heaven.
Now it is off to lunch and find a money machine. I will not go into details as much of it would be from the backseat of the car as we drove for two and a half hours through the streets of Sao Paulo looking for the right restaurant which we never found as it is Monday and all of the museums are closed. We ended up at the large city park where also all of the eateries were closed except one with prepared cold sandwiches. But we are at a park and we can do some birding. But even that was short lived as a thunderstorm came in and we must head home because of traffic.
This night we are going out to the most expensive restaurant in town on top of the 43 story Italian Building. The best view in the city. I will let Zosia write about that as expensive restaurants and I have a "thing." This was not my favorite day. But tomorrow will be great.
Zosia got up and I explained to her that Iracema had asked us to help ourselves to breakfast and she would come back out to make coffee as I could not find any coffee or a coffee maker. Did she go back to bed? She was in there a long time. So Zosia and I had a small breakfast of cereal and bread, jam, and fruit and still no Iracema. Later Iracema came out and she was showered and dressed.
No, she didn't say today was self service, she said we were going for a big breakfast at her favorite bakery. Oh what confusion these languages brings. So the joke of the day to all we meet is "Self-service" as we talk about our confusion. By the way self-service here means - buffet.
Next we are off to the stone store. Of course, I am thinking a bead shop that Zosia likes to go to to buy supplies for her jewelry business. It takes a long time to get there across town. No, this store is the palace of stones - the marketplace for crystals and gems. It is an expansive warehouse. Some of the crystals are 1200 pounds, first floor of elaborate displays of raw minerals, the second floor of polished minerals and crystals. I buy a few uncut stones that fit my fancy and Zosia goes shopping. At the end of an hour she comes down and asks me for all my cash as if she uses cash she gets a discount. She is in heaven.
Now it is off to lunch and find a money machine. I will not go into details as much of it would be from the backseat of the car as we drove for two and a half hours through the streets of Sao Paulo looking for the right restaurant which we never found as it is Monday and all of the museums are closed. We ended up at the large city park where also all of the eateries were closed except one with prepared cold sandwiches. But we are at a park and we can do some birding. But even that was short lived as a thunderstorm came in and we must head home because of traffic.
This night we are going out to the most expensive restaurant in town on top of the 43 story Italian Building. The best view in the city. I will let Zosia write about that as expensive restaurants and I have a "thing." This was not my favorite day. But tomorrow will be great.
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