Once every two weeks I go to "The Ceasa" which is a large fresh fruit and vegetable market that supplies all of Rio. We go there every week to pick up fruit and veggie donations for 10 Family homes in the area. It’s one of those days I don’t usually look forward to because it [...]
Today we went over to Patricia’s mothers’ house for lunch, during a little break between our shows. (Patricia has been in the family for 1 year and is from Brasilia. She is the “clown” in our puppet show.) As soon as we arrived, Patricia’s mother handed me a glass of Argentine wine!
Here we are staying in the house of a long time friend of The Family’s who is a doctor. Her and her husband have been very nice to us and given us the royal treatment, including excellent food, a nice room and good fellowship. Now I’ll definitely want to come back when I get a [...]
Gettin slack on my blogs cuz the flu finally caught up with me… Here in africa, when you are sick, the first thing everyone asks is, "Is it malaria??" Probably because malaria is as rampant as a common cold here. The insane thing is that you’ll find people ill with malaria here but still be [...]