Abby, Zoë and Enzo

There's something we've been seeing advertised for a while now called McDia Feliz, and at first we couldn't figure out what it was all about.  We knew whatever it was, that it was a huge deal around here.  Apparently one day a year, today being the day this year, in all of the McDonald's in Brazil beginning at noon they encourage people to go in and buy a big mac (here when they say it it sounds like biggie mackey).  There was a bunch of hoopla and on the news throughout the day we saw clips of the local McDonald's with all of these tents set up and lines of people and everyone getting big macs and other things.  It's for a good cause, however.  All of the proceeds from the big mac purchases go to the children's cancer hospital.  We decided not to participate, but seemed like maybe the only ones who didn't.

Instead, the girls and I went down to the park in the afternoon, once the sun was in a good position for there to be shady areas to play in.  We were down there for a while and finally came back up to the apartment.  Once we got inside and were washing hands, I realized that we hadn't brought Zoë's bracelet back up with us.  While playing in the park it had come untied and she'd left it with me on the bench.  These are the bracelets that Nonno Ernie got for them while here and she was quite upset at the prospect of it being gone forever.  I really didn't want to go back down and look for it, but finally I gave in and went down.  Before going I explained to Zoë that with the wind and the kids playing down there, that the bracelet may not be there.  I quickly walked back to where we were and saw that it wasn't on the bench.  I looked around the bench however and did find it on the ground, much to Zoë's delight.