When we arrived to our hotel in Sau Paulo, we had so much fun checking out the modern Murombi rooms and the amenities we had. We were tired, exhausted and gross feeling from the lack of showers. But we got a great Brazilian/Italian meal and I had a few beers for about 30 Brazilian.

We wandered around this safe World Trade Center for a while and took a bunch of pictures.

The weather outside was absolutely fantastic with zero humidity and great sunshine.

We took a two hour nap and eventually woke up seeking more food, but to no avail we could not find anything open in the WTC. So we had to pay about 100 bucks to eat inside the Hilton. It was decent food. But absolutely fantastic service and totally relaxing atmosphere.

That night at about Midnight we overheard a noise coming from a wedding down below and it started right at midnight. We were a bit worried that in Brazil, the weddings start at midnight and last all night with that racket, but it eventually ended. The building . . . Read More..

We miserably woke up at 7:30 ish and it was dark and we didn't want to meet up for our early excursion to the Sugar loaf Mountain. The ship had you meet in the large Theater to get your assigned cattle bus number for your stereotypical expensive drive through town to get your candid smiley photo in front of the sights.. smell any pessimism and sarcasm here?

I know it is a safe excursion for sure. But I had my doubts you get what you pay for with some of these. Most of the people paid for the "Best of Rio", that hit up the Corcovado (Christ The Redeemer Statue), The Sugar Loaf View as well as got a Brazillian lunch and tour of the Cathedral.

Susan and our tour group first got to the Cathedral fully modern and made of concrete and it was so huge and apparently it holds like 5000 people or more. It was pyramid shaped and had the most beautiful stained glass and a huge cross at the top. I took some pictures and videos of this and took a picture of our new friends from New . . . Read More..

So this week I went apartment hunting but found that you can pay the same price to rent a home or condo, so now I am leasing Courtney palms 2 bed 2 bath condo for Susan and I's marriage.

We will never want to leave this gated community and the price was very cheap for such luxury.

Compared to the 600 a month ghetto apartments that one advertisement had me visit, this is a steal.

Our Tampa life will rule, you guys can all visit sometime and it has enough space for all our crap.

Wish us luck on the moving part of things the weekend of the wedding.

So yesterday a bank decides to seize all assets of my company and now I and my whole company is UNEMPLOYED!

Yes indeed it is the worst thing to happen to a person before their wedding.  But some of my colleagues are far worse off than I am.  The worst part about getting laid off for the first time is the fact that I was supposed to get paid tomorrow and now I am not because our company has less money in their entire account than I do in my bank account.

Wish me luck people!

Anyway, tonight Noel came over and I completely helped him with his brakes.

We went from computer nerds to flat out car mechanic newbs.  And helping him save 150 bucks was a refreshing change from just being on the computer looking for jobs.

I learned a lot, but Noel knew what he was doing a little too.

And his new brakes are fantastic.

Ben Taylor and Paul Taylor must be proud of us.....

This would not be a big deal, but the math teacher used to hate and
refused to allow any jackets in the room, even though it was kind of
cold in there once and a while.

She was going along teaching, when she basically tripped a little and
picked it up..

The jacket obviously was mine and had my name on it.

Kevin and Dave Clingan just laughed and laughed.

We used to do other things in that class like always would call on
each other. If you answer a question right, you picked the next
person to answer.

Kev would always reply "CLINGAN!!!" in such a funny manner.
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