Three Years?!?!

We celebrated our third anniversary on Saturday December 20.  We could not have imagined when we got married that it would be in Brazil. 

Because our anniversary is so close to Christmas we have always been around family.  Although we were not close to family (by blood or marriage) we spent the afternoon with our “quase family”  the Ensz’s.  We really enjoyed ourselves eating lunch (although not too much… we were trying to save space for supper), playing games, and doing leathercrafts.  It would have been so strange to spend it alone.

Because it was such a big night we decided to go out for… pizza!  Although going out for pizza does not sound romantic or exciting we were so excited.  One of the outings our language teacher took us on was to a restaurant called Mr. Pizzo.  It is a variable smorgasbord (or cornucopia) of flavours!  Sixty in total.  Although some of our all-time favourites, like Hawaiin and Greek are missing, there are some pretty incredible flavours.  Cupuaçu, white chocolate, calabrese and onion, Sicilian, margarita, ferrero rocher, etc, etc, etc.  Mmmmm.  We were supposed to keep count but neither of us had a pen and marking on the tablecloth with ketchup did not seem appropriate.  We guesstamate that between the two of us we ate twenty different flavours. 

Speaking of ketchup, when you walk in to Mr. Pizzo and sit down, one of the first things you may notice is that there is a basket of mayonaise and ketchup on the table.  You may ask yourself does this establishment serve hot dogs too?  The answer is no.  Some Brazilians put ketchup and mayonaise on their pizza!  Although we had eaten at Mr. Pizzo before we had not tried  the condiments.  Spicy mayonaise on pizza is pretty good.  

It has been an amazing year, one of growth and change.  We are excited for where the Lord is leading us in the years ahead.  Who knows where we will spend our annivesary next year… 

Much love, M&M

PS.  Sorry there are no pictures.  We didn’t take our camera.