due to popular demand...some pictures from the last week..

We have had a great time visiting all our relatives here in Curitiba and also Witmarsum. It was too short to see some people, but it was great the little time we had here...thank you to all the people that took us in and fed us, and drove us around to show us the sights. We appreciate it so much, even the extra pounds...:)

Tomorrow we will continue flying, on to Bluemenau for a few days, and then on to our final destination of Bage. Keep thinking of us...as we will start flying again after such a long break.

Hope all is well back home...

guaratuba
doris and lori in the condo on the praia
curitiba
churassco
fish pond and bbq area
parrots at our uncle and aunt's "farm"

curitiba time

We had a nice break in Witmarsum and are now with some more relatives in the big city of Curitiba. Quite a different atmosphere than the farms in Witmarsum. We visited lots in Witmarsum with relatives (danke Marly), and ate too much, don´t know if the plane will take off now with all the churascos (bbq)in our stomachs. Tomorrow we are going to the praia (the beach), Guaratuba, and relax at the ocean...it´s a tough life. We are going to stay here in Curitiba until Sunday, and then back to Ponta Grossa where the plane is and then off to Blumenau...

Everything is going great, but we don´t miss the plane....and the guarana is great Joe...

Stay tuned....

witmarsum

We are now in Witmarsum. We had a very good flight from Anapolis to Ponta Grossa. Our total flying time was 48.5 hours. We are planning to stay here for a week to ten days including Curitiba. We don´t want to deal with plane stuff as long as possible then after the break we will continue flying. Next we are going to fly to Blumenau then our final destination of Bage.

Internet access isn´t that accessible these days, so bear with us...

Thanks so much for the prayers and the comments...

we made it to anapolis

Oi, tudo bem? That means hi, everything well? We think. We took off this morning from Araguacema and flew to Palmas to get fuel and then flew to Anapolis. We flew about 3 and a half hours today. We met a Canadian that works at the airport and got a parking spot in a hangar, which is cool. The hangar belongs to MAF, it has a portuguese name. We are going out to dinner soon with the missionaries that we just met. Tomorrow we are planning to fly in the morning to Ponta Grossa, where we are planning to stay a week. We will make a "driving" trip to Curitiba which is only about 45 minutes away from Witmarsum. It'll be good to take a break as its been a little stressful. We still have a ways to go to our final destination which is Bage.

Keep thinking of us, we love the messages and we hope everyone is well....

araguacema

We took off this morning from Belem, with some delays, they wouldn`t let us take off right away, but eventually we were off. We had a 3 and a half hour flight to araguacema, where we are staying with our cousin Frank Penner. We had a nice lunch and then we went on the river araguaia in a small boat and saw the sights. We will stay here for two days and then on Wednesday we will fly to Anapolis. It is good to have a break and not stay in a hotel....stay tuned!!! Thanks for the encouragement and comments, we appreciate them....

hopefully we will get some pictures up soon...

we are in belem, brazil!!!

Success! we will update later, as my time at the internet cafe here in the airport is almost up! \we had a great flight....more to come as soon as we can get to another wifi spot....we will spend the night here in belem and then fly tomorrow to araguacema...another 3 hour flight....but we~re in brazil!!!

guyana anyone?

Hello Everyone!! We woke up in St. Lucia, went to the airport and was guided through the process with relative ease, Thanks Zookie. We flew 1 hour to Grenada to get gas and then customs....again. Which took over 2 hours with us running around the humid airport like chickens. It was something like this, fill this out, go there, oops don't have the right papers, then a long moment of finding out our options, then go file a flight plan, but you can't get into that office unless you go through immigration and get your bags checked, then 2 or 3 times more of that then we were able to go. Then we were off to Georgetown, Guyana, where we arrived 3 hours later. Customs? Was a breeze, very nice people. We even made a friend and swapped addresses. Now we are in a hotel and got settled in minutes before a down pour. We are going to try to enter Brazil tomorrow!!!!

We've flown 31 hours total from home to here, we've gone through 6 countries already, in 1 week and 1 day. Not too bad....

Have a good Easter weekend everybody!! We will miss the Penner family reunion, we'll be there next time.

Bye for now...

ps...we decided today after the chaos of customs to not land in Suriname...as they require a visa to enter the country, and even though we wanted to refuel there, we just didn't want to take the risk. So from here to either Belem or if we don't get that far, we will land in French Guiana, in Cayenne...

pics: top: swimming in st. lucia, second: hotel in st. lucia, third, this morning taking off from st. lucia, with the huge cruise ship in the background, bottom pic: border of Venezuela and Guyana....