Abby, Zoë and Enzo

I wish I could have taken photos on this trip, maybe by next trip we will have replaced the camera.  We didn't buy much, only what I could carry the 6 blocks home.  We have not figured out if the porters who delivery your groceries cost money or not.  We tried to ask the young doorman at the apartment, and he said it was gratis, but I am not sure he understood exactly what we meant.  The good news is that he is going to show us how the marmitas work at a local lunch place Wednesday.  It should be a good time, we will bring the dictionary so that we can try to communicate.  As for the groceries, we spent around US$20.  We bought potatoes, beans, onions, a cucumber, 3 liters of liquid yogurt, some bananas, mustard, 2 soup mixes, 2 ramen noodle packs, and the most expensive items of the trip, a package of cookies Zoë picked out, made by Nestle and had coconut in them, and a package that Abby picked out, that looked like donut cookies, and a Hershey's candy bar with cashews that Laura picked out.  Those last 3 items cost 33% of the whole bill.

We ran out of bread, and Chris has been promising to take the girls to the bakery if they have good night time behavior for a couple of days now.  The girls did well last night, so they were ready to go early in the morning.  Chris had some errands to do so I ventured out to the bakery with the girls.  It is only two blocks down our street, and I had my eye on a cake for a couple of days now.  They were all out of most items by the time we showed up, shortly before lunch time.  I bought 2 packages of rolls, 10 rolls in each package for R$ 2.91 = US$1.80 each and one small round bundt type of pound cake with prunes in it weighing 1.35 pounds.  Chris was teasing me, saying that I was so hungry for cake, that I bought the only cake left, with prunes in it.  That was R$5.52 = US$3.40.  It was very tastey and we proceded to eat half of the cake for afternoon snack.