Still Hot

We are officially ready for cooler temps. Here is what we are looking at for today and tomorrow.

Porto Alegre, Brazil Weather

Updated: Mar 12, 2012, 3am Local Time

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	Today	Tonight	Tomorrow
Fair	Mostly Sunny	Clear	Partly Cloudy
75°F	96°	70°	95°
Feels Like: 77° Get FREE weather on your desktop	High	Low	High
Past 24-hr precip is only available for the contiguous U.S.	Chance of Rain: 0%	Chance of Rain: 0%	Chance of Rain: 10%
Wind: From NE at 2mph	Wind: NW at 8 mph	Wind: NE at 7 mph	Wind: WNW at 11 mph
Short-term forecast summary is only available for the contiguous U.S.	Sunny to partly cloudy. Hot. High 96F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.	Mainly clear skies. Low around 70F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph.	Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Hot. High near 95F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.

We wake up in the middle of the night sweating in our bed. We take 2 cold showers a day to stay cool and take the sweat off our bodies.

I'm up now because of the heat. It's 4 a.m. and it's 80+ inside our house.

It's our 10th summer here so, honestly, we are used to the heat. We are used to no air conditioning. We are used to hot/humid summers. We know how to deal with it and survive. Doesn't make it any more comfortable but we know how to stay as cool as possible.

Do we wish we had central air? Sure. Do we wish it was cooler? Sure. But here we are pushing into the back side of March (like September for our Northern Hemisphere friends) still with daily temps close to 100.

So we've had enough. We are waving our white hankies. The sun/summer wins. We give up.

Side question for our teammates who used to live here: Do you guys remember it being this hot in the middle of any March that you were here?

My girlfriend says she never remembers these temps this deep into March. I say maybe once or twice but not this consistently hot. Just curious what you guys remember.

Anyway, we know we are supposed to be content in all circumstances and not wish for the future but I'll confess that Wednesday's high temperature of 80 with some rain sure does sound good.

One More Teenager

It's hard to believe but Carys turns 13 today. Hard to believe because in my mind she always looks like this to me:

You know our birthday tradition. Here we go:

Giovanni (as translated by my girlfriend):  "Ank you, Carys, for making everything fun for me.  When I fall down, you give me a snoopy bandaid.  When I have to do something I don't want to do, you make it into a fun game.  You are a great big sister!  I love you!"

Anderson: "Carys, you're the best sister EVER! And you make the best breakfast EVER! And I LOVE YOU!"

Garrett: "Happy birthday Carysss!! I love you so much! You always tell me dumb jokes that are really funny!! I love you a lot Carys!!! And Happy Birthday!!!

Ansley: "Carys, I cannot tell you how much I miss you sometimes! You are so funny and happy and I just really miss you. I hope you have an awesome birthday!! I love you and will see you in a little
while :)

Bronwyn: "Keka!!! Happy Birthday! I hope you have a really good day and that you make everyone else do what you want to do. I love watching movies with you (duh) and I love it when you leech on me. I really wish I could be there with you today! I love you and miss you a lot!

Girlfriend: "Carys,  what a blessing you are!  I love you so much and just enjoy being your mom.  You are funny, sweet, brave, and crazy.  Thanks for bringing sunshine to our days.  Thanks for liking girly things so I don't go crazy in this mainly boy household that we have now.  You are an awesome girl and I know that you will just grow prettier and sweeter as you get older (but don't grow up too fast!!).   I love you!"

Me: "Vivi, I can't tell you how much fun it is being your dad. You are just like your picture from above. You always look for the fun in everything and that blesses everyone around you. And you have an awesome laugh. You have one of the funniest laughs I've ever heard. It always makes me laugh. I love that you are a daredevil and I love that you aren't afraid of anything (like when you asked last week if you could jump out of your second floor window because you "KNEW" you could do it and not get hurt!). You are one very cool big/little sister and you bless me and mom very much! But the most important thing about your life is that you follow Jesus and are a great example to your friends. Me and mom could not be more proud of you. I love you Vivi!"

Happy Birthday! We love you!

It's Back!

We thought we were done with the heat. We were wrong.

Porto Alegre, Brazil Weather

Updated: Mar 4, 2012, 6pm Local Time

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--High	95°High	95°High	96°High	91°High
70°Low	70°Low	70°Low	69°Low	71°Low
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