Day 13 - Saturdayish stuff

This morning went to the Extra (think Super Walmart with less selection) by myself for the first time. I did just fine despite my annoying cart with the wheel that kept jamming up. Bought a little vacuum (sweeping up my long hair from this slick tile floor was just not working for me), a couple of little lamps, and a little table for next to the couch. Also some cheese slices, salami slices, olive oil, little breadish-cracker thingies, and some pickled veggies. 

The cord on the vacuum is silly short, I had to plug in 4 different places just to get all of my tiny apartment. I am not really a putter together of things, so Cheryl told me how to put the vacuum together via facetime :P And she was smug about it. So rude lol.

Cleaned the apartment, did some laundry (using some Snuggle I bought at Extra... hope that it helps decrease the crunchiness of my air-dried clothes). Couldn't get the jar of pickled veggies open, so I took it down to the front desk and "J" opened it for me. He struggled with it so I didn't feel like such a big wuss.

After lunch I decided to go explore a little since it was so pretty out. I drove around aimlessly kind of looking for a furniture store (the only ones I found were crazy expensive, so still no armchair for the apartment). I drove through Centro and it was crazy crowded, all kinds of open-air stores and vendors selling stuff in the park. If I hadn't known I would be shopping tomorrow, I probably would have stopped. Drove by the "field," one day I'll take a pic, it's so pretty. 

I need to add something else to the Brazilian driver bit: if you turn your hazards on, apparently it's a free pass to do whatever the hell you want to where ever the hell you want.

I was supposed to go to dinner with the Todds, but their smallest munchkin wasn't feeling well so they stayed home. I went to the sushi joint right across the street from my building that I've been wanting to try. I know the one magic word: rodizio. The server and I had some serious miscommunications that I feel sure he can't be blamed for, but everything was delicious, even down to the mineral water that I thought I didn't like! Not sure I would survive this adventure if I were a picky eater.

Tomorrow morning I'm meeting 3 of the girls I work with and we're going shopping in São Paulo - I'm so excited! It will be the first time I've been there except for the airport which doesn't count. Hope I pick up some good stuff at the municipal mercado :)

My dinner... was soooo good. The two rolls at 11:00 in the pic kind of looked weird to me & I wasn't sure I was going to like them, but turns out they were probably my favorite. There was something sweet, almost like strawberry jam in them. Holy crap it was tasty!