Abby, Zoë and Enzo

It's surprisingly been a little while since we've been to the beach, since it's so close and all.  This afternoon we all walked down to enjoy some low tide fun.  Zoë was a bit dissapointed, as she'd wanted to go to the pool instead.  She still has some phobia at the beach here for some reason.  When we got there Abby couldn't get herself to the water quickly enough.  Zoë was trying to talk me into just going however far she wanted to go into the water.  Zoë also kept telling us that Abby was going out too far, when she'd go out and let the waves wash up to her belly.  At first I stood in the shallow water with Zoë, but even here she was grabbing on to Chris and I.  I went up and sat by our things while Chris stayed down with the girls in the water.  Zoë kept running back to me and complaining that Daddy wasn't standing shallow enough, and once told me that she was worried.  I explained to her that she didn't need to be worried, since Daddy and I wouldn't let her do anything dangerous.  Finally she saw how much fun Abby was having and began venturing out and playing in the waves.  After a while both girls were sitting down in the shallow water and laughing away when a wave would come.  I'm glad they both ended up having a great time.  Meanwhile I enjoyed sitting in the nice sand.  I commented to Chris that the sand was just like the really nice sandbox sand that you have to pay a lot of money to get.

We've mentioned before about the poor quality of toilet paper here, and the lack of 'flushable wipes' (not that it would matter since we're not to flush anything anyway).  Chris has also mentioned his solution of just getting a quick rinse off in the shower.  However, I've noticed a few places while out and about that beside the toilet is what looks exactly like the sprayer nozzle and hose that we're used to having at the kitchen sink.  Since I'm fairly certain that we're not meant to do the dishes at the toilet, I can only conclude that this is supposed to be used for the bottom. (Although it would improve our dish washing process at the crazily set up kitchen sink dramatically if we had one of these there too)  We have what seems to be a hook up beside the toilets here in the apartment, but unfortunately no sprayer.  If only I had known, I could've brought our nice new sink sprayer from home... we would've had the fanciest butt cleaner in Brazil.