where are we?? porto velho....

In the middle of nowhere. We left this morning from Cuiaba, and had a four and a half hour flight to Porto Velho. It was an amazing flight, super smooth and no clouds. The only thing that was weird was that we had almost no communication with any control zones, so we would just contact the small airports that we flew by, which worked out great. We are getting used to the "silent" treatment from these guys. We are now in our much better than usual hotel, which even has wireless!!! Amazing! It is 33 degrees here, pretty warm compared to freezing temps in Bage, we have to get used to the heat again, but that won't take too long...:)

Tomorrow we hope to fly to Manaus and stay with our cousins Marcio and Kaela Rempel, weather permitting of course. Since we have wireless at the moment, we will leave another post tomorrow in the morning saying if we left or not. This next leg to Manaus is in the heart of the Amazon...so think of us extra hard...!

Hope everything is good over there and everywhere people are checking up on us, we appreciate it so much!

Here are some pics that you've been asking for....finally!!!!!! (sorry for the delay...couldn't do nothin about it..)

ps...happy birthday aiden...we sang for you in the plane at 8500 feet...:)


ingrit's garten
lori the horse whisperer...
dad's old driveway...where he grew up in col. nova
horse back riding in col. nova (danke diane und anderson)
checking out our slideshow (only 200 pics as opposed to 900)
got corn? at the hans penner's in medici
the "modern" churassco
so suess...(l-r) tiger, nueni, sisi, sassy and lola...
our new friends...graciele, julianna and simone
oma and ingrit martens with us by the plane

second cousins, william, stephanie and rogerio
dad getting a haircut from cousins Marly (and Hans Martens)
itaipu dam
leaving bage/colonia nova...