Fun Day at the Park (Joshua)

This last Friday all of CLM went to a park in one of the colonies here. Since school is starting soon, they had a big going back to school party thing to end the summer here. It was a nice park with a lake for swimming, a zip line, small soccer field, shelter and fire pit. The older boys and Steven and I took advantage of the nice morning weather and biked the seven kilometer distance to the park. Wow, was that interesting trying to bike on those crazy roads. The cars got pretty close sometimes and the other boys would switch lanes depending on which direction the cars were coming from. Steven and I didn't know which side of the road to ride on. But we made it to the park safety. Once we were at the park we swam for a couple of hours and went of the high dive and zip line. I really am starting to wonder if the kids here are part fish because swimming is all they like to do. They love the water so much and can swim really well in it too. For lunch we had sandwiches under the shelter. After lunch we swam some more and I played soccer with some of the adults from the church and older boys. That evening we had hot dogs in the fire pit. I had about eight or so and kind of regretted it. You can buy hotdogs in bags or 100 for like 10 reals (currency pronounced hay-i-s) which is only around six dollars. Really cheap hot dogs in more way than one. We biked back then leaving after the rain from the afternoon had died down. Overall a pretty good day.

Steven on the Zip Line

Cook Out

Patrick and Telissa 

Romulo and Amanda by the fire pit

Soccer (fyi Brazilians are good at soccer)