Brazil Bound!

Well, it is less than 4 weeks till we leave and I can finally say "when we go to Brazil" instead of Jay's "IF we go to Brazil".

Therefore, i can finally blog about it. Yeah!

So yeah, i was writing my friend in Brazil and looked at the Calendar to see how long till I see her, and it came up as less than 4 weeks! That came out of nowhere!

It has been a long, stressful & arduous journey to get here... First, there was the whole Jay having a job uncertainty, if he got laid off we'd need every penny to live off!
Second, when are temporary Brazil living friends came for their visit in May, we learned that he was going to be relocated to a remote area in Brazil. They didn't know when it was going to happen, if their new place would have room for us and did we want to go out there...

So, we finally knew that Jay's job was safe (for the near future) but, if we no longer have free lodging, is the trip still viable? Our race tickets are non-refundable but to go just for the race weekend would be super expensive because flights to Brazil are super expensive! We even looked into resorts and stuff in Brazil but that would cost mucho money...

Alas! A 3rd quarter, out of left field Hail Mary play... Our friends from Brazil contact us about the possibility of free lodging in a friends home in their former neighborhood at exactly the time we will be there... Hurray! The trip is saved and restored to the original plan!

So, we are leaving Toronto Thursday October 15th and arrive in Sao Paulo Brazil Friday October 16 for... Race Weekend! Then on Monday the 19th we take an internal flight to Belo Horizonte and start the tourist part of our trip. Then we catch a flight again from BH to Sao Paulo and leave Sao Paulo for Toronto on Wednesday the 28th, arriving back in Toronto on the 29th.