Heading South: Oh the humidity!

I feel like the outside is just a giant sauna. Maybe that's dramatic. Nope, it's not. Neither of us have ever really experienced humidity before so we are trying our hardest to make the best of it!

And besides, "Girls don't sweat, they GLOW."

Does this mean we made it to our destination? IT DOES! After about 28 hours of travel we have made it to the wonderful country of Brazil. It started yesterday (6/13) around 5 AM when we left for the airport for our first flight to Miami! There was a young boy in my row and you know me....I was so excited at first! He was about 6 years old and super cute...until he became "that kid." I woke up at one point thinking there was bad turbulence but no, it was just the boy jumping on his chair with a parent unwilling to do anything! My inner babysitter was dying. So we made it through the 5 hour flight with about 40 minutes to spare for our connection to Manaus, Brazil. We made it on time but then saw someone with a Dunkin Donuts bag and just HAD to get some....which may or may not have led us to almost miss our flight. No big deal. So that flight was about 5 hours and we both got lots of room, plenty of sleeping time, and even some satisfying airplane food! Then came the boring part.....

We had an almost 6 hour layover in the airport of Manaus....not many things to do there! Charlie road his longboard around...I tried (unsuccessfully) to order 2 ice cream cones...and we people watched! Again, almost missed our flight. No big deal. Then came the last stretch! A 4 hour flight from Manaus to Belem which was where we met Gary and his daughter Kenzie! We are staying in their home for this summer. (How do we know them? Well my mom lived in Belem when she was a wee child and her family became friends with Gary's family the Parkers and so it came to be..)

The compound here is beautiful!! I haven't taken pictures of it yet but we will soon! We settled in, had lunch in the cafeteria (delicious!), I had some Brazilian coffee, Kenzie took us on a tour through the jungle, we tried some cool Acai dessert, and are now just relaxing and trying to get over this jet lag.

Tomorrow is a big day but we don't really start working until Monday.

We will post as soon as we can!

Please pray for our jet lag to go away soon so we can give our 100% and glorify our God! Miss you guys!

-Charles and Victoria Starr

Brazil 2013