Brazilian BBQ

This week I was suffering with a little cold for most of it, so our week was pretty quiet. Mitchell did go and meet his improv group for a meal on Tuesday though which was nice. 

On Friday we almost went to go and watch a baseball game, but decided to do it next weekend instead, so we met the international group for a quick drink instead. 

On Saturday, we had a little date lunch with iced tea and salad, finished off with a doughnut and a s'mores flavoured cupcake. 

In the afternoon, we picked up Pam and went to watch Klaudia's roller derby match. We'd not seen roller derby before, but it's two teams on roller skates, and the star player of each team has to get around the track as many times as possible, while the other team tries as hard as they can to stop her. It's pretty intense and we saw lots and lots of players fall over, and two leave the field with ice packs, not to return. 

It was two hours, and by the end Mitchell was really getting into it. He's decided he might actually like watching sports, maybe, just not football. 

Sunday was fun, Pam and Bruno, two Brazilian scholars, were hosting a Brazilian barbeque for everyone with traditional drinks, meat, vegetables and of course, music!

They BBQed some steak and chicken drumsticks (although we didn't eat them) and roasted corn, aubergine and other veggies. Sides included a chunky tomato and onion salsa, egg and potato salad and garlic rice. Pam also made us several drinks with cachaça, which is a liquor made from sugar cane and served with lime. 

Brazilian music is fun and makes you want to dance so we did some of that too. Bruno's house has an amazing back garden which drops off at the end and looks over a park. We had a great view of the sunset and had so much fun. Apparently there's enough food left over that we're going back next week too!


Lots of love,

Emily and Mitchell

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