Phase 1: Avenida Santo Antônio to listen to some popular local music, dance and hang out with Carolina's parents.
Phase 2: Parque Euclides Dourado with Carolina's friends (lots of them.) In Portuguese, my name comes out kind of like Henny. I think some of the girls could tell I was getting tired of having to explain things to people so they asked my full name to see if they could nickname me. This is how I became Elena. After a while Carolina made them stop and try harder to say Renee. I think she didn't want me to feel made fun of or something but I really really didn't mind. It was SO MUCH easier than having to teach every single person I met. I guess I'll just have to be Henny.
Anyway this group relocated to Parque Ruber Van Der Linden for some more hanging out. We met up with her dad and brother again and their friends and then went home to rest.
Phase 3: Esplanada Guadalajara for a concert. Jorge Ben Jor. Look him up. Anyway, it started raining as soon as we got there! We stayed though, got soaked through, and didn't get home til 4:30am.
Here's some Monteiro Family Trivia:
Dad: Pedro Leopoldo
Mom: Lucia Angelica
Brothers: Leo e Pedrinho
Pedro Leopoldo loves jeeps! He's in a jeep club (jipe clube) and had (I'm not exaggerating) over 50 trophies from Jeep events (Jeepcross.) There are a bunch on the table in the photo below, ALL from jeep festivals.
Pedrinho is a large animal vet specializing in bovine reproduction. He is constantly laughing and sneezes ridiculously loud like Jimmy.A friend of Pedrinho's knows some english from playing Warcraft etc.
The family has an 8 year old cocker spaniel named Dara.
The president of Brazil, Lula da Silva is from Carolina's hometown.
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