View from the top of Tulsa

Views from the Williams Tower, building where Graham works. I had a chance to go up there last Friday!

Voltei!!

I haven’t posted in about a month… sorry! I have been busy!

 

I was in Rio (Brazil):

(Botanical Gardens)

Belo Horizonte (Brazil):

Buenos Aires (Argentina):

(in front of Casa Rosada – Pink House – The White House of Argentina)

Tigre (Argentina):

Valparaiso (Chile):

and Santiago (Chile):

Now I am back to springtime in Oklahoma!

O Rio de Janeiro continua lindo…

Doing Business with Brazil class –

Day one: Copacabana Beach, jumping waves, Ipanema Beach, Ipanema Market, Coconut water, Acarajé, Pão de queijo, Guaraná, Churrasco, sun….

 

Day two:

City Tour, Sambódramo,

Maracanã

Traffic Jams

Corcovado e o Cristo Redentor

Business Visit to Bio Rio – Biotechnology Business Incubator

Sunset walk at Copacabana Beach

Rodizio de Pizzas

Copacabana crafts market – samba music lesson

Students watching an impromptu Capoeira show by the beach

Dallas

This week I traveled to Dallas for a meeting of the organization I am part of, NAFSA Region 3 Team. It was 2 days full of meetings at the beautiful SMU campus (sorry, no photos)  but we also had some time to enjoy! (I was there Thursday-Saturday). We stayed at a boutique hotel at the campus, The Lumen.

Back to Tulsa, sunday lunch: Torta de milho e pudim de banana (queimado…)

PS: Last week we celebrated Valentine’s day day going to the Tulsa PAC to watch a ballet (Romeo and Juliet) and getting a couple’s massage!

Since last time…

I haven’t been taking so many pictures lately… but here is what I have -

Basketball game Tulsa 66’ers X Fort Wayne with the exchange students:

Walks….

They Might be Giants at the Cain’s ballroom:

The only snow of the winter so far:

Our kids:

Mia having fun with Natalia’s shoes…

Semana Brasileira

The Brazilian Youth Ambassadors are back in Tulsa!! On Friday, we had an event welcoming them to TU. A Bate-papo united Brazilian and US students to chat and eat Brazilian food:

Sunday night, I went to the Farewell Dinner for the 9 students – I brought this cake:

Start of the year…

Not much to report. It was a very busy week at work, getting ready for the return of the students. It will be a very busy semester with a lot of travel!

Saturday I did my long run – 5 miles in one hour. It was easier than when I ran 5 miles last week. However, my left knee is not liking this running business… It hurts! It wants to slow me down.

Here is our dinner from Saturday night: Graham’s special pork chops with Brussels sprouts and baked potato. I made Canjica for dessert!

Bring on 2012!!!

Feliz aniversário Graham!!! Dia 29 comemoramos o aniversário do Graham viajando pra San Antonio e passeando pelos pontos turisticos da cidade. Depois de uma comida mexicana e uma margarita, passeamos no river walk:

Depois visitamos o Alamo, um dos mais famosos pontos turisticos da cidade. Leia mais sobre o Alamo aqui: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Mission_in_San_Antonio

Depois visitamos o historico Market Square: http://www.sanantonio.gov/marketsquare/

Viemos passar o reveillon em San Antonio na casa de um casal de colegas do Graham da universidade.  Sexta feira visitamos o Japanese Sunken Garden:

Jantar na casa do Scott e da Lindsey:

Passamos o reveillon na casa de um amigo do Scott. A temperatura estava super agradavel e ficamos do lado de fora, perto do fogo e assistindo os fogos:

FELIZ ANO NOVO!!!!!! HAPPY 2012 TO ALL!!!!

Feliz Natal!

And Santa Claus came down the chimney , ate the muffin, banana and milk Braylyn left him, and left lots of gifts!! I guess we were all very good this year !

Christmas lunch:

Véspera de Natal

Today after my run we went to Edmond to spend Christmas with Graham’s family.  Here is one more look at our Christmas Tree before we left:

We went to the movies and after, Braylyn helped me to assemble a gingerbread house:

Meanwhile…. (photos taken by Braylyn)

… his mamma made some pizzas, Grandma assembled a toy, Graham watched a football game and I watched Braylyn.. and where is grandpa? Braylyn didn’t take a photo of him. yet. Here is our finished “house”:

After dinner, we went to look at Christmas lights: