A grand explore among other things ^_^

Well this past weekend was quite low key but enjoyable none the less ^-^, I do tend to get excited about the oddest things anymore though, recently it was the weather this weekend.In the past few weeks it has been in the 90s and constantly sunny, but over the weekend it finally became cloudy, cool and rained all saturday ^-^, I was ecstatic as melancholy weather puts me in the most artistic and inspired moods.I spent most of saturday curled up with my computer and copious cups of tea finishing up my blog updates, writing letters and sketching fashion designs. That evening I went to meet some people from school at a friend's house for an enjoyable evening of games and a movie.I had to put up with them watching a posivitely dreadful horror film for a bit until everyone grew too disgusted with it and abandonded it in favor of more pleasurable pursuits, namely mimica ( charades but for movie scenes ) and dessert ^-^.Alyssa and I attempted to act out some scenes but unfortunately my cultural references being slightly from the norm, we had a bit of difficulty coming up with ideas, and after they failed to recognize the famous riding scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail we gave up all together, as the only thing I could think of ended up being asian and when you mention asian film they think of Jackie Chan and Jet Li ( shudders) instead of Zhang Yimou, Gong Li,and Wong Kar Wai ^_^.

This afternoon after what seemed to be ages of cajoling I finally convinced Alyssa to come on an explore of Lins with me.We got rather a late start but we still managed to spend a fair amount of time wandering about central Lins while Alyssa got some photos developed.We found the town park/square which is tiny but very pretty and proceeded to take most of our photos there.Which has the unintended consequence of making Lins appear far nicer than it actually is ^_^.I also made it to a grocery store ( probably boring Alyssa to tears in the process but she was a good sport ) and spent a long time wandering around trying to figure out what is available here and plot things to cook ^-^, all the whilst bemoaning the prices as anything of very good quality is usually imported and therefor absurdly priced.I spent several minutes agonizing over whether or not to purchase a few hundred grams of camembert but in the end sadly decided against it due to the exorbitant price T_T. I am positively dying for want of good french cheese,bread,lovely fresh vegetables, wine,mochi, and Japanese food here as all these things are either impossible to come by where I live or exceptionally expensive ,and rather to my dismay I've become slightly stingy now that I no longer have a job T_T.I did procure some ingredients for biscotti and I do hope I will be able to make some before I leave on saturday for my Rotary inbound orientation. All in all it was quite good fun and I plan to entice Alyssa out again soon so we can work on getting to know some of the other areas around Lins ^_^.
I'm not sure what these steps were supposed to lead up to, it was almost like a gazebo without a roof ^^
Looking down at Lins from the park
random street around Lins
Some sort of official looking government building I chanced upon
At Estella's for pizza ( I'm getting so sick of Brasiliand pizza !!) and games
Shops and parks in dear little Lins ( have you noticed how often I emphasize that this place is miniscule?^^)

The main catholic church here in Lins ( or as Alyssa put it " it looks like a disney castle or does that not make sense?")
hmmm... all the park benches were hideous concrete with advertisements painted on them ( very classy )