Thursday, 20 February 2014 DAY 670 327 MOON 23 WANING 62%
Today is our last beach day. When I woke up to push everyone through the early morning portal that transports us to a beautiful beach for sunrise, I smelled rain. I looked out the window and I could not see any and soon after a quick downpour of rain fell. So I did what most people would do, I went back to bed and we watched the sunrise from the comforts of our jungle retreat ( a euphemism of sorts). The sunrise would have been astonishing from the sandy beach because the rains quickly left as quick as they had arrived and the sky somewhat cleared leaving a few clouds behind for the dawn to paint. We ended up going to the beach at 8:30am instead of 4:30pm, and the difference is that we all came back with pretty good sunburns. Managing morning sun is easy to do, but afternoon mid-day sun in the Tropics is difficult to hide from. Oh well. We probably will not be sunburn again for a long time. I think I remember recovering from a sunburn when we first arrived in Floripa fresh from Autumn-Madrid. The waves were not good for body surfing, but Viena and Ezra loved, absolutely loved, playing in the waves, running, thrashing, jumping, floating, diving, crashing. They were in pure joy, as if they knew that this experience was unique and that this would be their last time to experience something like this for a while. Helicopter flew over the neighborhood tonight looking for monkeys in trees with spotlights.
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