Wednesday November 24th.
Today was a quiet day. Kristian had some errands to do at his businesses at the mall and took me along. He has two businesses there. One is a bar and the other is an ice cream kiosks called Deli Drops. The ice cream is made in little frozen balls about half the size of a smartie. It comes in lots of flavours and is very delicious.
So with the two businesses, his full time job teaching English at FISK, his girlfriend Karolyne and her four year old son Bernardo, and his band Sabanna, he is a very busy guy.
He took me on a driving tour of the downtown of Iguacu and I noticed the Christmas decorations going up. It doesn't feel like Christmas to me, because it's warm and I'm wearing shorts!
After Kristian finished his evening shift at the school, he came to pick me up and we went to play volleyball with a group of his friends. Volleyball is definitely not my forte, but I didn't embarrass myself any more than usual. We had fun and got some exercise. Played until 10:30 and then home to bed.
The Christmas tree in the photo is about thirty feet tall and made from recycled pop bottles! The other tree I saw on the Argentinian side. Apparently it is a member of the fig family and the fruit is toxic. But what I really found interesting is that the fruit grows from the trunk, not branches. There is a different tree in Kristian's backyard that does the same thing. It produces small fruit, again from the trunk, that tastes similar to and about the same size as grapes.
Great trees...I wonder what eats the toxic fruit off the fig tree? Something must...nothing seems to go to waste in Nature. And about wearing shorts close to Christmas...was it not your tradition to wear shorts until it snowed or was that just an urban myth? ha-ha!
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