Winter/Summer Break

On June 19th Gareth and I flew back to the U.S. for 5 weeks.  It is actually winter in Brazil, so they call it a winter break.  But for us who are going back to 100 degree it, it is summer.  We are using my parents house in Mississippi as our home base, but we will doing some traveling around including going back to Tulsa to see friends and doctors.

We have now been here a week and wow has time flown.  We are slowly seeing people that are in our lives, but we have also just been taking it slow.  The first couple of days, I did a mad dash through stores buying summer clothes for us all before they all gone.  Gareth was going to need shorts to last until next spring, so I had to buy things in multiple sizes.   

It is interesting to see how much we have become Brazilian.  I noticed yesterday when Gareth was handed a spoon at the Chinese restaurant he said obrigado which mean thank you in Portuguese.  He did not realize it, and I did not mention it to him.  I find myself doing the same thing.  I also miss the fruits and veggies we enjoy in Brazil.  So many of our meals are more than half fruits and veggies, not the case here.  I am having to watch what I eat as American food does not agree with me as well as it used to. 

I will enjoy every minute of this trip to my childhood home, but I feel that we have a home in Brazil also.