Can you say "carne"... ?

We've reached the midpoint of February and as you can see the days are averagely hot, challenging each in their own small ways, and still God is giving us regular "highs". Day 14. Here goes.

Welcome to every man's dream (unless you are vegetarian):

Freio de Ouro Churrascaria - translation - Gold Brake BBQ

So basically you sit down and your conversation is constantly interrupted by skewers
of meat. It's Valentine's Day so we splurged and had all we could eat for about $40 U.S. dollars. We ate at a churrascaria in the states just before we left for Brazil and paid $99 per couple. This was a steal! We took two buses there and made it just under 2 hours with rush hour traffic. BUT, we paid half on our second bus fare because we figured out how to transfer in a certain amount of time and save money!

We were served a variety of meats: 24 hour ribs, melt in your mouth pork (okay we made that name up), chicken hearts (Maicol ate about 30), beef ribs, filet mignon, roasted chicken, a linguica (facy sausage), and some other things we were so busy engulfing we missed the specific terminology. We swallowed it down with our favorite Brazilian soda (Guarana) and a Coke.

Top it off with roasted pineapple sprinkled with cinnamon! Not to mention the salad buffet and desserts. What a night! And we celebrate with you all this day of loved ones that God has given us.