Well surprise, surprise, surprise
Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise
Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes
And let your love shine down
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I tried and tried, but the early morning adventures are more difficult to do around Christmas, and in this heat. The past two days have been the hottest we have had since Petra. I was awake at 3:45am to refill the “air-conditioner” with some more ice. This kind of reminds me of waking up in the middle of the night to stoke the fireplace. I should have stayed awake and started breakfast and then we could have caught the 5:00am bus to the sunrise. Today must have been a beautiful sunrise. I was in dream land, dreaming of the caste system in India and where we all fit in that. I mean, here we are traveling the world, like royalty. Well, royalty would have real air conditioning. I did leave the house at 7am to go on a run. The heat of the day was already here. I guess temperatures topped 44C yesterday and today temperatures appear more of the same. I ran around Cacupé and by the end of the run I was in need of some water. André had a fresh papaya smoothie waiting for me when I returned. We quickly gathered our things and were out the door heading towards SESC. Ezra was happy because Papai Noel had stopped by again and delivered a car/truck transport system, very nice. This is just another benefit of traveling the world with children, people are more kind with their actions, neighborhood love. Four neighbor boys were visiting upstairs but we were at SESC all day during the heat. At SESC, we played chess, checkers, gymnastics, ping-pong and billiards – all inside games. Most of the parents at SESC looked like zombies – us included. The heat of the day and keeping up with our children was just taking the life out of us. We walked and Ezra biked. We had our must-have umbrella. We enjoyed acai form lunch. Viena was having a rough time with this heat. Her left eye hurt and she has a big tooth coming in. We saw a beautiful butterfly.
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