1. Mac is 100% better. No coughing, no lethargy. He's acting like his normal, 6 year-old rambunctious self. During our prayers on night #1, he thanked God for His medicine: the fresh, salt air which was healing him.
2. Mac talks to anybody that will listen to him - in Portuguese or English (and he thinks Spanish, too) - which leads me to believe that he is well past my being entertaining to him. It's a little embarrassing because he will infiltrate any family or bother a romantic couple in the pool or in the ocean to start talking to them.
3. We ate a delicious meal at Bar Caxeira Restaurant last night. I had the most marvelous fish ever and we had to order Mac two children's plates of spaghetti, although one plate was pretty big itself.
4. We rented a beach buggy (dune buggy) and driver this morning for a 4-hour tour. The tour took us to different beaches, one of which is really a natural pool formed by reef where Mac got to kayak by himself. We also got to go on a flat-bottomed boat (called a jangada here) up a river where sea horses live! We got to see three sea horses in their natural environment (as well as in a big jar where they collected them so we could see them up close). The whole thing was very cool and Mac loved it.
5. There are not a lot of Americans at this resort and we've met 2 of the other 3 American guests here. We didn't meet the woman from New Jersey who's traveling by herself and has been here for a week but left today, but we did meet two guys who work for a GPS mapping company out of Denver. They're in the Recife area for 6 weeks to map the streets and highways of this area for GPS units like our beloved Garmin. Did you know that they have to physically drive the streets, making notes, all the while looking like major targets with bullseyes on the car because they are driving around in a car with a big GPS antenna on top, laptops in the front seat, a camera mounted on the dashboard, etc. Especially in parts of Recife, which is VERY dangerous, this screams "I am rich, please rob me at gunpoint." Very interesting talking to these guys. We always learn so much from people and their jobs and their lives just by asking questions and being interested.
6. Mac's favorite word du jour (or of the last few days) is "spectacular". As in, "this beach is spectacular" or "Mom, you should see the tile in the bathroom; it's spectacular".
7. Our jangada was named Pato Donald (Donald Duck) and we soon found out why. Our jangadeiro liked to talk like Donald Duck. Granted, he had skills, but how annoying is that???
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