I arrived Saturday 1:30am at home, exhausted but happy to be back. I swear that the moment I left the plane and breathed Brasilia air, I felt the peace and calm. I didn’t realize DC was so stressful this week, mostly because I packed too many things into 4 days trip. Coming back home with accomplishments and assurance that I’ll be able to rest and recover.
I woke up 6am, wrapped the gifts, and Lizzy was eager to open them. She loved everything!
her friends arrived around lunch time, they had sushi and then went to the trampoline park to play, so I could took a nap to recover a bit. I felt I was walking on pure skeleton as the exhaustion hit me hard this time. After the nap, girls played in the pool and we had candles.
It was a low key birthday celebration, easy for us to organize, yet Lizzy loved it. At one point she said it was the best birthday she had so far.
Sunday I felt even more recovered after 9 hours of sleep. We played with Bubble, I missed her too.
I tried my new hydration bag, love love love it! It fits me perfectly and breathes well. My body was not rested yet but I managed to job slowly for 10 miles, mostly to free my mind and absorb all the goodness of our life here in Brasilia. No drama, beautiful and calming surroundings, and kind and welcoming people.
We also finalized our summer plan. After a lot of back and forth what to do after 3 weeks camp, whether to visit Disney, Miami, or Cancun (I even booked a resort), to decide to extend our DC stay for a week, then come back home. Then we all go, with daddy after getting over jet lag as he’ll go to China for a month, to go to Visit Lençois Maranheses. It is one of the MUST do place in Brazil, and only during June-August. So we decided to do that.
I booked the flights and the two hotels today, will book the transfer and tours closer to date!
Finally we have a summer plan that feels right, exciting, good balance, and probably wooo!
How do you pick where to go to visit? What’s your next destination?
When we move to a new country, I usually ask the locals who love nature where to go and start making a list. This place came highly recommended by many colleagues, and it looks very different from what we’ve seen before, so it is on the top. Next, I’m wondering if we want to visit Galapagos. At certain point, I also want to take the family to visit South of Argentina: Ushuaia, Bariloche, and Calafate.
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