During these 3 days, the boys; Fransisco, Gilmar, Lorenzo, Guilherme and Sondre + the girls; Ana Luisa, Ana Tereza, Anabel and Anniken had so much fun and activities that I don't think no other holiday can compare!
Marta and I went for a walk an hour every morning, it hasn't been raining for 3 months, it was so dry, so we were almost covered in dust when we returned!
This fazenda has more than 6000 hectare. They grow soybeans and rice, but cattle is their main business. They have approx. 15.000!!!!
As the rest of the world is hysterical about the swine flu - here in the south of Brasil we are more concerned about the yellow fever. The mosquitoes carrying the yellow fever has come out from the jungle and rain forest and are now also flying around in Rio Grande do Sul and in the forests around Porto Alegre. People are lining up to get the vaccine, but in the fazenda we took our precautions and locked the gate every time we went to the field - to shut the mosquitoes out :-)
Horseriding was the most popular activity of course, and here we have 5 gauchos!
Anniken hasn't had such a great time in a long while......
Mr. Storbrua
Sondre, Lorenzo, Gilmar, Fransisco and Guilherme!
Sunday they were out of bed really early to take the horses before the girls and ride far, far away.....
The girls :-)
Never a boring second; playing soccer....
or baseball.......
picking oranges......
playing cards.......
joking in the hammock......
what a paradise to rest and read......
fishing.....
the fishing trip had no succes, so why not go for a mud-bath?
swimming in the fish pond.....
sunset.....
What a bunch of happy kids!!!!!
(smelling mud and with clothes that will never be clean again!)
fresh eggs......
chasing the sheeps........
And of course; CHURRASCO!!!!
We got very hungry of all that fresh air!
Pique-nique......
Marta, Antonio, a visitor, me and Ana enjoying a wonderful meal!
Sondre (Rambo) helping to cut some branches of a tree!
The kids played hide-and-seek in the dark one night. Can you imagine all the places to hide in an enormous farm?? We tried to scare them with all the snakes in the bushes everywhere, but it was of no use - out in the dark they went..........and never came back!!!!!
After an hour or so we heard the dogs barking; Sondre and Gilmar came running home more frightened than ever. 5 guard dogs had forced them up agains a wall and surrounded them. Never have I heard so huge jaws, so sharp teeth and so angry eyes of any dogs. I'm surprised they slept at all that night; but forgotten was snakes, swine flu and yellow fever - DOGS were the most scary thing!!
We only had a very few small accidents; Fransisco got the baseball club in his forehead + almost lost his toe nail, Sondre fell down from a tree (only once), Anabel twisted her arm, Ana Tereza run into a wire in the dark and hurt her eye, oddly enough; no one fell off the horse, but one horse kneeled down under Guilherme! And - no one got eaten by a dog :-)
Thanks for a fantastic week-end - we loved every second of it!
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Wow - that looks like a fabulous weekend!! I LOVE all the pictures of the kids - you can tell they were having the time of their lives!! I'm envious.....
Wow, what a fantastic week-end! Fransisco has already lost one tooth and his cellphone in Norway. That's good he kept his toe nail.
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