manaus

We made it safe and sound to Manaus! We are roughly 1/3 on our way back home....we've flown 68 hours so far. Today we flew 3 and a half hours from Porto Velho direct to Manaus, it was a pretty cloudy and sometimes a bit rainy flight, but otherwise a very nice flight. We are now at our cousins place, Marcio and Keila Rempel (and Matthias)... we had a good lunch and are probably going to rest a bit.

Tomorrow if weather permits we will fly to Boa Vista and perhaps to Georgetown, Guyana or Grenada...we don't know yet...

Thanks for praying, we needed it today....!




manaus

manaus bound

Just thought we'd let you know we are taking off as early as possible for Manaus, please pray for us for a safe flight...we'll update as soon as possible when we land...

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...

cuiaba

COO-YA-BAH....yes we are here, endlich mal. It was a 4 and a half hour flight from Foz, we took off this morning at 9:45 am and did a 360 over cataratas, the falls, and then flew via Campo Grande to Cuiaba. It was a very nice flight, super clear.

Tomorrow we hope to fly to Manaus, via Porto Velho, if the weather is good that is, but reports are telling us that it isn´t that great in Manaus, so we will see.


We are now at Peter and Lydia Enns, but will stay in a hotel a little later tonight...


We need to hear from you too, we miss you all, leave messages!!! :)

Check back soon...

ps...the picture is at foz, cataratas, the falls....(more pics to come soon, NO WIRELESS!!!!!!!) :(

foz do iguacu

HEY! We are currently in an internet cafe in Foz do Iguacu, across the street from our Bavarian inspired hotel. We had very good flights today. First we flew from Bage to Santa Maria, which was 50 minutes, but then we had to spend 3 hours at the airport, making the flight plan and checking the weather etc etc...Then we flew from there to Iguacu, which took 2 hours, and was an excellent flight, except for a few hiccups in communication with the lovely Brazilian controllers. We were able to make a 360 turn over Itaipu dam, which was awesome.

Wir sind jetz in Iguacu, es war 50 minuten bis Santa Maria, dann dauerte es 3 stunden bis wir wieder weiter flogen. Dan dauert es zwei stunden bis Iguacu. Es hat alles gut gegangen, Gott sei dank!

We still can´t get pictures up, but we will try asap...tomorrow we are planning to fly to Cuiaba, which is a 4 hour flight.

Hope all is well at home....

(ps...Aiden, we´re thinking about you, and hope you feel better!)

still in colonia nova

We decided to stay another day due to weather. We plan on flying tomorrow to Iguacu via Santa Maria where we will get fuel.

We hope we can get pictures up soon, perhaps from our hotel in Iguacu as the internet here in the nova is too slow, sorry about that...

We`ve had a great time here visiting our relatives and eating lots of food, too much, our meat needs have been met. Vegetarian is a side dish...

Pray for clear skies...

pictures

On the way to Col. Nova, our camera went kaput. So yesterday Doris and I went to Uruguay and bought a new one, they were cheaper there, than here in Bage, and duty free. Anyway...for all the people asking about pictures, we will get them up soon! We just have to figure stuff out...come back soon...