Foot Mittens

We’ve been up early every day (because moving is so fun and we can’t wait to get started!) and are pretty zonked by the end of the day. So zonked that tonight, when I noticed that Marc was only wearing one slipper, I told him that he had lost a foot mitten because I couldn’t remember the word for slipper!

The movers came today and tetrised all our stuff into a 10x10x10 storage unit. It’s really quite impressive. The walls of our apartment are all echoey and there’s just a last carload of stuff to take up there tomorrow. We’re staying with friends in Somerville until Tuesday evening, when we fly out!

Tomorrow! Busy day. So many last-minute errands to do, like buying Duck a new laptop (his computer’s period key decided to stop working tonight), doing laundry, a Goodwill dropoff run, canceling our internet service, going to the post office, etc. Our reward will be dinner with friends, which we are looking forward to!

Last night, we had a bon voyage (er, boa viagem) party, which was the most perfect sendoff I could have imagined. Two friends (one of our hosts, who is Jewish, and one of our friends who is an Episcopal priest, obviously) gave us each a lovely blessing. I got a bunch of kids’ books about Brazil from the library and put them up around the house. We also put up trivia, which reminded me of the trivia I used to put up on my blog when I lived in Australia, and it reignited my fondness for that particular aspect of my last big travel adventure.

So without further ado, here’s your first trivia question, my favorite from last night:

Marc loves Bob Dylan. Which of the following is a Brazilian folk singer said to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil?
a. Jimmy Buffett
b. Chico Buarque
c. Jair Bolsonaro
d. Giselle Bundchen