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8 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Dec. 9, 1962 Sunday
Place Rio
Weather Clear, hot in AM; full moon, then cloudy

At 10AM we went by taxi to Bertha's house on the slopes of Tijuca, —a beautiful house with hardwood parquet floors, big windows & a superb view of the valley with pastel-colored houses, some churches & then the almost vertical rocks of the Tijuca range. She took us for a ride in her car to Boa Vista at 1200ft, from which we had some marvelous views of the distant bay. Then she showed us her house & 11 dogs, 6 of which belonged to neighbors who did not feed them much. About 12:30 we went to a nice restaurant at the edge of the city for a fine dinner of broiled fish, mashed potatoes & shrimp dressing, with glasses of coconut milk & cashew. Later we looked at her brother's frog slides, which are very fine. She gave us iced tea & cake, then 2 mangoes to take with us, & we left about 5:30. A bright full moon came out before we got home, & there was a nice little Christmas parade with white horses & 4 floats later.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 9
Date Dec. 10, 1962 Monday
Place Rio
Weather Sunny & warm, then windy, cloudy & cool.
Doris went to the Plant Quarantine Service to-day to see the entomologists there, so I went alone to the museum. Dr. Miranda-Ribeiro says we must see Iguassu Falls as it is not far from Curitiba, & is a wonderful sight. Dr. Pires brought me 2 mangoes (not ripe yet) & paid for my lunch, because I had given him lunch in my office 2 months ago. I worked hard all day on the frogs, I am nearly half done with them. My camera has not yet been repaired, so I cant photograph any. We had a delicious shrimp & rice dish for dinner, a cashew drink, & fruit salad. Everything tastes good, & so far neither of us has been sick —due, no doubt, to the iodine tablets that we put in our drinking water.
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