Visiting friends in China.
Our Pictures.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
6 legs
Our ticket for the "pre-trip" has 15 legs. So far we have flown 6 of the 15 legs to visit friends and family in Chicago, Brazil and The Netherlands.
While having lunch with some friends and talking about our itinerary Rosana's 5 y.o. Godchild in Chicago commented on the trip "That's a LOT of vacations"
Flying with miles means a lot of sacrifices, ie not able to fly the dates you want and not able to get direct flights. At least we were able to fly business class (we calculated it and for every 10 miles we flew in coach for our jobs we are able to fly one in business class). While on the way from Miami to Lima a passenger passed by our seats and commented "This is bigger than my apartment". He must have an apartment in Tokyo or NY but at least it made us feel good. To those wondering why we were flying to Lima... No we do not have friends in Lima, but again flying using miles meant that this was the only way to get to Sao Paulo, with a 20 hour layover in Lima.
We only had 6 days in Brazil and 3 of those were spent standing in several different lines to obtain our visa to visit our friends in China. After soccer, standing in line is the second favorite pass time for Brazilians. We even noticed that if there are two entrances to the subway, the Brazilians will take the one that has a line, assuming that that is the only way in.
While using the subway in Sao Paulo we saw a special seat (see picture below. translation "Seat reserved for obese people"). We thought this may be an interesting idea for the Chicago Elevated train stations, we just don't think there is enough space on the platforms to accommodate all the people in Chicago that could use it.
While having lunch with some friends and talking about our itinerary Rosana's 5 y.o. Godchild in Chicago commented on the trip "That's a LOT of vacations"
Flying with miles means a lot of sacrifices, ie not able to fly the dates you want and not able to get direct flights. At least we were able to fly business class (we calculated it and for every 10 miles we flew in coach for our jobs we are able to fly one in business class). While on the way from Miami to Lima a passenger passed by our seats and commented "This is bigger than my apartment". He must have an apartment in Tokyo or NY but at least it made us feel good. To those wondering why we were flying to Lima... No we do not have friends in Lima, but again flying using miles meant that this was the only way to get to Sao Paulo, with a 20 hour layover in Lima.
We only had 6 days in Brazil and 3 of those were spent standing in several different lines to obtain our visa to visit our friends in China. After soccer, standing in line is the second favorite pass time for Brazilians. We even noticed that if there are two entrances to the subway, the Brazilians will take the one that has a line, assuming that that is the only way in.
While using the subway in Sao Paulo we saw a special seat (see picture below. translation "Seat reserved for obese people"). We thought this may be an interesting idea for the Chicago Elevated train stations, we just don't think there is enough space on the platforms to accommodate all the people in Chicago that could use it.
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