Ha, well the fun began last night.  You see, here in Brasil I have had the chance to better my stick driving skills.  I am still not very smoothe, but i can drive a car.

But, last night my motoring skills were put to a new test.  Driving a motorcycle.  Now I have never in my life ridden on a motorcycle.  One of the guys here in the neighborhood said he would teach me.  Now I was expecting he would let me ride with him around for a while, but he just jumped off and handed me the helmet.  I got on and after much explaining and translating through the missionary kids here, I tried it.  It took me about 7 tries before I actually got the right touch with the clutch and the gas.  The first time I got it, I almost ran into the Forans car.  I managed to miss it and the next time I tried, they started me off pointing down a long, empty, straight street.  WHOA that was fun!!!!  I’m hopefully going to get to practice some more today and get some pictures.

This morning Miss Renee and I went off to the mall in search of some soccer shoes.  After visiting many a shoe store, we finally found some.  You must understand that Brasilians are small people with small feet.  So finding a 12 or 13 down here was like finding a needle in a haystack.

We finally found some reasonably priced Nikes that were in my size so.

After that Miss Renee and I went to the food court and ordered pastels.  Pastels are to pieces of dow that have some thing in the middle(chicken, cheese,  beef, pizza stuff…whatever) and are fried.  I got one with with chicken and cheese in the middle and another with banana and chocolate.  MMMMmmm good.

Then we went over to Wal Mart where I picked up some things we used to get in Venezuela that I haven’t been able to find in the US.

Good day…and I hope it gets better….vrooom, vrooooom!