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Good morning from Porto Alegre! We don't have any specific plans for today. It was nice to wake up in our quiet little apartment. Our room at the beach was across from the breakfast room, so there was a certain amount of noise every morning.

Carnival is starting up. Carnival is celebrated differently, depending upon the community. We've all seen the Rio celebrations. At our beach, they said it was calmer and more family oriented, at the beach town next door it is a street party, and pretty wild. Here in Porto Alegre most of the action is in the night clubs. We are not interested in going to night clubs, and are probably too old to anyhow, so I don't know if we will see any Carnival action. Currently researching if there will be any Samba parades.

Tomorrow we are having lunch with another one of my Brazilian "brothers" and his wife. Back in the days I was a student living with his parents, he was already married with 2 children, but played a big brother role just the same. Another of the brothers who took us to the wine country is returning from Europe today, and wants to do another trip to a different town in the Serra Gaucha, maybe next week. I'm afraid these next 10 days will go too fast! We leave on February 23, returning to the US on the 24th. We're enjoying what each day brings.

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Here again in a place I so enjoy.

It's been a truly hobbily-hoy beginning of the year so far, and I can't quite get into the flow of things...for example, although the trees are down (as of Wednesday) all the Christmas stuff is still sitting in the dining room waiting to be boxed and stored....jeeps, it's Valentine's Day tomorrow and the snowman china remains in the kitchen cabinets. What's with that?

SEKansas is in the midst of delightful faux spring weather which helps motivate me to be done with hibernation a bit...won't last and expecting some snowstorms into March which also won't last. Defiantly enjoying the hint of change.

Been very hit and miss keeping up with all the delightful activities happening here and will certainly check out previous posts.

I miss ***** Gorda! We thought about going through that area on Sunday on the way home from Captiva but it would add about 2 hours to our drive so we will go straight back across the state.

Spring flowers already! Of course there is no real spring in Florida other than when the live oak trees exchange their leaves in late February/March. I do miss the spring flowers in Massachusetts but they are a lot later and spring is usually very rainy up north.

Yes, a lot of people go around in golf carts on Captiva but there are a lot of cars too. Pretty common mix of vehicles on islands off of Florida.

Late check-in for me. 118.8, a new low! Maybe DH should travel without me more often! Lol! Still have not turned on the tv

Did water aerobics and then shortly after that former coworker friend came over and we walked 3.5 miles. I was tuckered after that!

Worked a little more on my art stuff. I have a meeting with the manager of one of the stores on Saturday morning. Coworker friend and I then went to ***** Gorda for dinner. It was really good! I had Tuscan shrimp and she had mussels and lobster!

Talked with DH and DC1 on the phone and now I'm ready for bed! I expect the scale to be up a little tomorrow!