Moroz Family Summer 2022

  Wednesday April 23 Day 7 After breakfast we loaded up the boats and headed for shore to meet the Kombayba tribe of indigenous people. We walked across wide beaches to their outdoor community centre and were introduced to the beautiful Children’s Choir who performed their National Anthem for us. All the tiny villages and homes for an hour in every direction send their kids to school here. The Government has provided significant funding and numerous fairly modern buildings adorn the campus. Kids can either attend school 7-11am or 1-5pm. 7-10pm is adult classes. Elementary students picked up and returned daily. High school kids come Monday and leave Friday. School holidays revolve around low water level months. Casaba potato and fish diet twice a day. Land is sandy. Can’t grow much food. Times have changed since they got electricity 10 years ago and now with this school they have a teacher and a fully trained nurse. Flat head tribe. Board on head from Birth to make flat head and sho...

  Sunday April 27 Day 11 in Brazil A lovely sleep in and auto curtains at 8am. Off to the gym for a 60 min workout. Showers and to the top floor for another amazing breakfast with the best eggs Benedict we’ve ever had. Packed up. Checked out. Out the door for a 20 minute Uber to our next hotel - Renaissance São Paulo - 25 floors and 440 rooms. We checked in and the lovely Beatriz upgraded us to a huge suite in 2401 for the week. Separate sitting room and 2 bathrooms. Lovely. And what a view. Unpacked and hung all our clothes instead of living in a suitcase night to night. Backpack loaded and out the door to tour the city. Paulista Avenue on Sundays is like the Lilac Festival in Calgary. Thousands of people spread out on 15 city blocks. Put 1-2 live bands on every block. Setup a thousand farmers market stands and then let hundreds of cyclists, joggers and scooters rip through the middle of it all. Every single Sunday. Complete madness. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXNw6_MCDImJ-p...

  Saturday April 26 Day 10 A lovely sleep in morning with a room that didn’t bob up and down in a river.  Press a button. All the blinds open in our apartment condo style suite. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBIE850rcuBvbq5cbDN0MKO2dxreAX4O/ Showers and then off to the loveliest brunch and breakfast ever. A la Carte or buffet included. The BEST eggs Benedict we’ve ever had and pancakes were AMAZING. Hand made Lattes and fresh fruit galore. All while looking over the city from the fortieth floor. Off we go in search of Starbucks around the corner for you know who then a 20 minute Uber Ride to the huge Ibirapuera Park to rent bikes for a couple hours. For the life of us we couldn’t get our Airalo App to work and download Apps to rent bikes so we paid a bit more and were on our way. Just thousands of people occupying every space and running, jogging, biking, online skating. Inner City weekends people make use of any space they can find to get outdoors and be active. It was ama...

  Friday April 25 2025 - Day 9 In Brazil Where has a week flown? Up at 6am to watch the brown waters meet the black waters of the two rivers meet but not merge. Interesting but not worth the early wake up call. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19BA102FqtaXyWFAbGPTVXXCftba7ktBl Breakfast and goodbyes to our American friends from western Colorado and Chicago. Off the boat and the comfortable AC to the blistering hot cobblestone streets and 95% humidity. No more WIFI so it’s time to try our data plan. No luck. Hmmmmm. Getting an Uber may be complicated. Krista - ‘ Is your data roaming turned on? Darren checks phone. ‘YES!!?’ ….. (Turns data roaming on….) BINGO!! Holy text messages and voicemails Batman. Back to Airplane mode. Turn off all the running APPS and leave only Uber and Google Translate on. Phew. Probably burned up 10 GIG in 30 seconds. lol Uber arrives to take us to Laundromat. 5.76 BRZ REAL for 20 minute drive. $1.25. I. Love. UBER!! Giant load of laundry 39.99 REAL. $10 - S...

  Moroz Family Christmas Letter 2022 Rough Draft 2022 has come and gone and we have had some amazing experiences with our family and friends! December 2021 had us wrapping up a complete kitchen renovation with painted kitchen cabinets and a huge island while also preparing for a Moroz family Christmas in Saskatchewan, but Covid changed that as Darren picked up a case of it at school and promptly passed it on to Nicholas and Jacob. Krista and her super immunity escaped it and has still not had it! Our trip to Sask became a very quiet 2 weeks at home and not venturing out anywhere. Some quiet family time was a wonderful thing with lots of games and tv and Darren of course repainting the entire 1300 sq ft main floor in 3 different shades of grey his wife picked out.  January brought some colder days, and we sent Nicholas back to Ontario for university. Darren continued painting for a couple more weeks and at last, the house got put back together. February was quickly upon us and ...