valentines day outing

the day started with flowers delivered by the men to all us wives. Then the wives took the husbands out for American Pizza at Pizza Hut. It was great. Then we drove into the Center of Sao Paulo and went to the Modern Art museum. Photographs were not permitted inside the galleries but outside in the courtyards the cameras were allowed

The building itself was my favorite part of the museum. It reminds me somewhat of the Brimhall (Design) Building at BYU but on a much grander scale.

Outside the museum is a wonderful park filled with huge dinosaur-size trees. These parks are a wonderful relief from the skyscraper jungle that goes on for miles.

The parks are clean and amazingly un- crowded. Maybe there are more people enjoying the parks on the weekends just like the beaches. We usually plan our outings on Friday. The only crowds that we bumped into are usually school kids on outings with their teachers.

These tree trunks look like giant web feet to me.

Across from the museum is the train station built during the colonial period.

The building has been wonderfully maintained.

Vernon/Grandpa plans all of our outings and is looking into planning a train ride for us out to some of the surrounding cities. Many of the people in Brazil will commute to work on the train. Some have a three-hour commute, one way. When we asked one of the workers here at the MTC why, they said there is no work in the towns where they live.

I took this picture on the bridge that we had to cross to get to the car that we parked on the street. We were a little worried about parking the mission van on the street, but no problem. We take the GPS with us in our back pack just in case someone saw us take it off the window when we parked. I don't remember if I mentioned that Doctor Hall had his wallet taken right out of his pocket on one of our outings. Before he could notify the credit card company (two hours I think) the thief had charged over $1500.00. We are just a little more careful now than we had been.