The New And Improved Jabaquara

We left for Jabaquara Saturday afternoon. Most of the family was at Yuri's grandparents house already when we arrived. We looked at old pictures, ate awesome food, watched soccer and then headed into the town center to listen to live music. We had a great night!

Me and Yuri's grandmother, Creuza

Yuri's grandfather, Kachico getting us coconut water

Pedro with his new toy

Tio Patauta and Pedro having a great time

Bigger in Brazil: Grasshoppers.

Congrats to Tia Sandra who just found out she's pregnant :)

The stage with the band

Churros!! You know I got one.

We slept in this morning and then took a walk around town to snap some pictures of the improvements around town and of the house.

Tio Patauta playing bocci ball

Kachico headed back home

Some of Creuza's flowers

Yuri taking a shot at portraits

Creuza's Tomatoes

Creuza's Roses

A nice silhouette shot of Luana and Pedro

And what about bingo? Every one buys cards for the equivalent of $12, and you can buy as many as you want. Yuri and I each had one. You have to have all 25 spaces marked off, not 5 spaces marked off in a row. There were 3 prizes, 2 motorcycles and a car. They played for the motorcycles first, I was 5 away on the first one and 8 away on the second one. Everyone was pretty cranked up by the time they were going for the car. They start announcing when there are people that are only waiting on one number to win, but they don't say which number, which makes everyone anxious. They called 2 winners for the car. One was a ticket that was not sold, and the other one DIDN'T SHOW UP! They gave it a few minutes and continued calling numbers. I then became one of those few who was waiting on ONE NUMBER! When they called the last number they declared 8 winners. We left after that, but imagine! I almost won a car at a Brazilian bingo game.