Ouro Preto, Brazil

The beautiful cobblestone
streets in Ouro Preto were
oozing with charm! Built
on a hill, this old mining
town is just dripping with
charm!
Even though the people in
Brazil are very poor, by
comparison to the U.S.,
you'll notice that they
can still manage satellite
TV! Go figure..
This window was just
too cute to pass up this
photo op!

Trip To Brazil

Well, I'm safely home (and glad to be) from a great trip to Brazil to visit Dan & Pat Frei. They are doing quite well, and we had a fun week with them. It sure seemed to fly by! I'll post just a few pictures of the many we took to give you a taste of what it was like. The plane ride was LONG and very cramped. My feel and ankles were swollen from sitting immovable for so many hours. Seems to me they are moving those seats closer together every chance they get! We'll be sitting on each others laps pretty soon! Without further ado, here are some photos.. This first one was our first whole day in Belo Horizonte. We went to church about 25 minutes away in a ward that has doubled in size in the last year! There were probably 130 people attending. Hope you all appreciate your softly padded pews...no such thing here in Brazil! Hard, uncomfortable wooden chairs here..

Barb's Girls

Tracy & Kate came to meet baby Bree, so we snapped this picture of "the girls.."  (sadly, we were missing Fergi & Arden).  That's a lotta cuteness in one picture!

Grandpa, the push-over!

Grandpa is not easily distracted from his computer and O'Reilly after a hard day at work.  However, he'll drop everything to read a story to his sweet granddaughter, Allie!  Arden, you'd get the same treatment if you'd sit still long enough!