Maceió, Brazil

After a crazy, 24 hour long, series of unfortunate events that included delayed planes, failed communications, switched airports, phones that wouldn't work in Brazil, and missed flights, Robert, Austin and I somehow made it to our hotel in Maceio.  

We were suppose to arrive at 6 pm that evening, and Alaina was going to come to the airport to pick us up.  Unfortunately, we didn't arrived until around 3 in the morning.  Not really knowing how we were going to meet up with Alaina, we fell into bed.  A few hours later, we woke ourselves up to make it to breakfast, and as we were sitting down, would you believe who walked into the to dining room?  That's right, a newly released Alaina Jones.

 
I can't remember what this was, but it was tasty!

We thought that the very first thing Alaina should do, just hours after being released from being a full-time missionary in Brazil, would be to take her to the beach.  It was totally worth it.

I think it might have been a little easier for Alaina knowing that we were the only ones on the beach.

We found a little rainbow in the cloudy sky.

That night we went to a delicious dinner at a Brazilian Steak house.  It was so great having Alaina there to talk to everyone for us.  We were so clueless before.  It gets a little tiring to have to bring out google translate for every interaction.

After dinner we went to a local market.

I found the best chair  - perfect for the queen of the house.

After that we stopped by the chapel to drop off some of Alaina's gifts from America to give to her friends and companions.

And we were exhausted.