Poll

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Brazil Day 4

In the morning we woke up, duh, and had a delicious breakfast. After that, my mom, Pedro, Rafi, and I went to the Rio Sul mall. We first went to a store to change some clothes that were small on me. I got in exchange a bigger puppy shirt and a pair of comber shoes. Their GORGEOUS!! After that we went to a store to get Rafi some fancy shoes to go to the bar-mitzva we have this weekend. 1st we went to this store that had tons of fancy clothes like tuxedoes and leather shoes, and the ones that we needed were... R$300.00! Think of it this way: that´s exactly what a fancy buffet dinner for 7 people cost! Well, we decided to go to this other place were we got better ones for R$69.00. After that we went to this video game place and played for a while. Then we went home.

We had lunch and played on our DS´s. Then we went to see Ice Age 3, again. Then we came home and took a bath, and that´s pretty much it.

TTFN,
Debbie

The rest of the Day

Later we went to the beach. The water was great and the sun was fabulous. It started getting cold and the sun went away. We started walking away.....
AND THE WIND STARTED BLOWING, harder than I had ever seen before. It made your eyes hurt. Coolers, boxes, chairs and leaves nstarted flying every where. The sand looked like the sea and it was really weird.

Well, now we got home and took a bath and that´s pretty much it.

Hey, I discovered something important!
Everyone says thet 1 inch is the same as 2.5 cm.
Well, IT´S A LIE!!!!!!!!!
The truth is that 1 inch is actually 2.6 cm. haha!

Brazil: Day 3

Today Pedro is coming to sleep at our house because his dad is going to Sao Paulo for the day (work). We convinced his dad to let Pedro miss school tommorrow so we can finnally go to the beach. It´ll be awesome (and he´ll be really gratefull to us).

Today my mom went with my grandpa to put up some ads for her work, they´re not back yet. While they were at it, my grandma, Rafi, and I went to see if the Copacabana Fort was open for visits. Since it wasn´t, we took a taxi to the president´s palace. -it was the home of the president when Rio was the capital city of Brazil-. It had a beautiful pond, ducks, ice cream, trees and a huge back-yard. We actually saw a swan cuddle over her eggs under a bush!! Well the museum was closed so we walked along the beach´s edge. We passed besides a bookstore, we almost got in, but, Rafi was burning up, he was tired and couldn´t walk anymore. He was dressed in black shorts and a black T-shirt so it was even worse. We were luckily right in front of the train station so we got on a train and went home.

Since we got home, we watched TV and had a delicious lunch of rice, beans, mashed potatoes, and fried chicken.

I´ll right moree later, right now, that´s all...

2nd Day in Brazil

Today we had breakfast, and then went to a park. We ate, skated, climbed, and rode this car-ish thing that we had to drive and pedal by ourselves.



Later we had lunch with pedro and tio marcio. We had rice with beans, beef, and pudding.



We stayed at home for a while and then we went to the mall. We bought a pair of silver flowered shoes with a little bit of heels.

We ate at this restorant at the mall called Viena. It had buffet, menu, and rodisio (food comes by the tables and you pick what you want). I shared a plate of pasta with my mom. Rafi and Pedro had pizza rodisio. Well we got home pretty late and Pedro had school tommorrow, so we got home and went to sleep.

In Brazil

Today we woke up at 4:00 am to get to the airport at 5:00. We were going to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the airplane, we had lots of fun and the time flew right by. Why?, you ask, because in front of every seat of the plane there was a tiny touch-screen that had games, music, movies, and much more. I watched 2 movies: 17 again and Little Miss Sunshine. I also played 2 games: Crunchy the Snake and Battleship. I also listened to the whole Hannah Montana the Movie CD. It was great! We had breakfast at Dunkin´ Donuts and on the plane. At DD, we had a donut each, and a juice box. On the plane, we had bread & butter, milk, yogurt and an alfajor.

When we got to Rio, we went to this bufet were we ate rice, french fries, meat, salad, and finally, CAKE.

Now we are at my grandparent´s house chilaxin´.

Well unfortunatelym, that´s prety much it for now, TTYL,
-Deborah Elberg

PS: I´m sending a million hugs & kisses to my bff, friends from Chile, and especially....
my daddy, my grandparents, my turtles and my puppy, Spotty, who unfortunatly can´t be here right now, but I miss them all a lot!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo!!!!!!!!!

We're Back

At the factory we rode up a mountain in cable cars. Then we went to the actual factory were the wine is made. Later we went to their basement. Our parents, there, tasted different tipes of wine. While they did that we colored some grapes.

2nd Day in Santa Cruz

Today's my mom's b-day she got:

What? From Who?
Bracelet Me
Card Me
Blouse Daddy + Rafi
Chal Grandma + Grandpa

Today we have a tour of Santa Cruz Winery at 12:00. It is probably, now, about 9:45 AM, my mom is taking a shower and my dad and my brother are making a reservation to go to the observatorium tonight.
Well we just had a delicious buffet breakfast!!
I'll tell you later about the rest of the day...

The Day in Santa Cruz

Bad things me and Rafi found in and around the river:

• Sigar in a plant
• 2 soda bottles in the river
• plastic cups and bags
• milk-box in the water
• water is black
• bag with "droppings"

Info from the hotel:

• Pool opens at 09:00 AM and closes at 09:00 PM.
• Daycare is between the warm pool and the cold pool.
• There are three restorants.

The Rest of the Day:

We went to the pool, it was "REALLY" fun, considering the jaccuzzi was colder than the actual pool! haha!

After that we took a walk around the block, and honestly, nothing interesting.

Later we went to this restorant from the hotel that had great food but really bad service. We waited about 40 minutes for a pizza smaller than my head! Ok, maybe a little bigger.

What do you think?

Name any bad movies you've seen as comments on this post!!

Tell me what you think, are they:

• bad
• boring
• dumb
• scary
• creepy
• baby-ish
• gross...
• or anything else you can think of...

Santa Cruz

I finally got to Santa Cruz. We are on floor three and our room is 302. The hotel looks tiny from the outside, but it's actually huge on the inside. in the reception there's this cool elevator made of glass, so you can actually see where you're going through.
We just had lunch:
Food:
Day 1>Lunch:

• Buffet: Steak, french fries, celery, empanadas.
• Dessert: Pineapple dipped in honey.
• Drink: Mango juice

Well we're resting beforre going to the pool. It looked really nice, we saw it from the outside. I'll tell you later about the rest of the day.

FYI

I successfully finished my bat-mitzva preparement classes with the maximum grade.

I have lots of space left there so I'll use it for my vacations if I don't find my journal!!

Attention to all people interested!!!!!!!

i HAVE MUCH MORE INFO 4 U GUYS IN MY TEMPORARILY LOST JOURNAL IN WHICH I WRITE MOST OF THIS STUFF PEFORE POSTING SO PATIENCE PLEASE...

This year and next..

Hi to all the people. I am finishing the 1st semester of 6th grade. On winter vacation I'll be coing to Santa Cruz Resort for y mommy's b-day. Then August 8th I'm going to Brazil (rio) to see my grandparents. I'm really excited, I haven't seen them for a while and also want to find out how things are going between Laura and Pedro.

This year December 19th from 5:15 to whenever you want to leave (4:00 AM tops! haha), I'm celebrating my bat-mitzva!! After the ceremony most people do huge parties and dance all night long. Well I'm going to do a smaller one because...

I'M GOING TO SEE ALL YOU PEEPS TO BOSTON (finnally) JULY 2010!!! BE READY!!!

Well that's pretty much it for now, I guess I'll just tell you about Santa Cruz when I get there!