Sweet Pineapple and Simple Things in Life

If it´s the simple things in life that make us happy, today is set out to be a joyful day. Thomas woke me up at 7:30am saying that he wanted my company - cute! I would have enjoyed one more hour in bed but never mind. We had a light breakfast and at around 10am walked to the beach with to grab some fresh air and morning tea: pineapple and coconut water. So fresh... it really feels energising - which is a good thing as I´m feeling a bit sniffly.

It´s going to be a lazy day with not much planned. In the afternoon, thanks to facebook, I will be catching up with high school friends that I haven´t seen for close to 20 years. Cannot wait!!!

 

We didn´t venture in the sand strip today as the beach is too crowded on Sunday, unless you go really early.  The pictures below show Lucas and Thomas with my twin brothers, Beto and Paulo.

 

There are so many people in bikes here. I really feel like hiring one and going for a ride. I will do that as soon as I feel well again.

Not so sweet life: Mr. Josias, in the pineapple photo above, has been selling pineapples for 25 years!! I tried to engage in a conversation with him but he wasn´t keen. It´s a hard life; pushing a cart loaded with pineapples under this oppressively hot whether is cruel. I am sure that he´s not accounted for in the unemployemnt rate in Brazil which at present is at around 5% - lower than Australia´s (6.3%). I doubt that he receives any welfare. By the way, one pineable costs R$4 (approx A$2). He is probably better off being self-employed anyway, considering that the daily mininal wage is less than A$12. We, the middle class, winge too much when there is so many people in the world living with so little.