Minutemen Youth Wrestling

Well hello everyone back home. We arrived safe and sound on Wednesday morning at 7 am local time. Got through Customs and all the luggage made it without a problem. We then traveled 45 minutes from airport to hotel and cheked in around 9:30 AM. We had the time to eat breakfast at the hotel buffet before free time for the kids with little to do here. The adults walked around checking on local stores and stopping a a small grocery store for some items. Big bottle of water was only 85 Reives which is about 43 cents sow will stock up on that for the boys. We then went out to lunch at a Brazilian Buffet. It was about $12.00 US for the most amazing meal. Salads, seafood shrimp quail eggs boiled, sushi, potato salad. they then bring around all the beef on skewers and cut it off for you. choices werer steak, chicken pork, sausage, chicken hearts, ribs, brisket and it was all melt in your mouth. You need to take the boys to West Hartford when they get back for a taste. Thursday morning Jack Rudy, JR and Jamie were the first down and were able to have breakfast in hotel. The rest of the team got down at 9 and we left at 9:15 for 10 minute trip to sports complex. We started with warm ups and then brok into small groups. There were only 2-3 Brazlian wrestlers when we started. As we worked out about 5-8 big guys came in that CJ McCormick got to wrestle with. Then some other middle weights and finally 2 girls in the lower weights. They drilled for about 45 minutes then did some conditioning and and finished up at about 11:30 AM with handshakes and smiles. We headed back to hotel for showers and another 1 PM trip to resturant for buffet again. (Everyone seems to be liking the food part). This afternoon we will take medicines to church to be given to missions and then to a mall for shoping. Today is sunny and about 65 degrees. We will be watching Brazil on TV Saturday after we have a competition with the wreslers we ahve been working out with today and tomorrow. More to come.