Atherton Family Notes

I’m headed back toward downtown Santos, and I’ve just walked by an interesting little storefront church. I read in a guidebook that has an increasingly large number of Pentecostal churches, and I think this is one. There’s a service going on inside the church — it’s about 2:30 on a Friday afternoon, and there are about 10 people inside, lifting their arms and singing a Portuguese praise song. Not very well, I might add, but they are earnest. The lyrics seem to be about Mary, but I’m not sure. That would seem to be a little contradictory if I’m right that this church is Pentecostal in nature, but maybe that’s not unusual in Brazil.

There’s a bored little kid looking out the upstairs window, which makes an odd juxtaposition with the goings-on below.

Just down the road, I can see a Mosque.  Brazil apparently has a sizable population of Muslims here (at least by South American standards).  I was a bit surprised to learn this about Brazil.

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Whew! It’s been a long day due to all of the walking. By the time I made it back to central Santos, I was too tired to do anything else. So I went back to the bus station and bought a ticket back to the big city.

Looking at the map a bit, I estimate that I have walked about 11 miles today. For me, that’s probably overdoing it. I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to walk tomorrow.

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So I decided to go to Santos today after all. As it turned out, my hotel isn’t that far from the intercity bus station, so I took a taxi to the station and bought a bus ticket… It was WAY less than the cost of the guided tour I looked into yesterday, and I probably had just about as much fun.

Anyway, I really wanted to try live blogging, but I forgot to write down the email address I needed to get the post automatically submitted from my cell phone. I took notes though, so the posts you see below are the ones I would have submitted earlier today if I’d had the right information with me at the time.

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We went to Holiday World with our cousins on Labor Day weekend.  I’m still too small to ride some of the big rides, but Katy and I had lots of fun anyway.

I like the water park a lot too!

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I had a blast at holiday world.  I think everyone would have a blast there too and want to stay there their whole life.

I went on all the big roller coasters.  The biggest one was the Voyage, and I got my picture taken on it.  My favorite one was the Legend.  I got to ride it twice in a row — once with Mommy and once with Daddy.

We got separated from the rest of the family when we went to the water park.  We played in the salt water wave pool.  It was like being in the ocean with no jellyfish.

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