Thursday, March 16 was our second full day in Torres. After breakfast in our condo, we headed down to the beach.

We all tried the coconut water (because that’s what you do on the beach in Brazil) but Daddy is still the only one who likes it.

Raine and I walked down to the tide pools to see if we could find any cool creatures. All we found were some camouflaged crabs, mussels, and barnacles.

After lunch we drove up to the lighthouse, Farro de Torres.

We had a great view of the cliffs the we hiked the day before.

As well as a nice view of the city and the tide pools that Raine and I explored earlier.

We stopped in town to do some souvenir shopping but didn’t get a chance to buy anything because Carter had a raging earache. He got too much ocean water in his ear and was in bad shape. At a little pharmacy, DJ told the pharmacist what was wrong and she gave him a box of ear drops. We had no idea what they were but with the help of Google translate, we figured out that they were some kind of antibiotic. Daddy had to break a little glass vial with his fingers and dump the powder into the dropper bottle of liquid in order to activate it — not something that the FDA would ever approve, especially for an over-the-counter product! Despite the glass shards in Daddy’s thumb it turned out to be just what Carter needed. We were glad that we didn’t have to find a medical clinic in order to get a prescription.

For dinner that night, we walked down the street to a local pizza place that had good reviews on Google Maps. It was a little hole-in-the-wall complete with ants on the tables. The pizzas were really good, although a little different than in the US. Here is a photo of our vegetarian pizza. It had a regular pizza crust and cheese but in-between it was piled high with broccoli, corn, tomatoes, palm hearts, and some sort of green legume that looked like peas. The kids’ 4 cheese pizza had sliced tomatoes instead of sauce and more cheese than anyone could possibly eat!

Here are a few other photos from Torres, including a pic of our apartment building.

This apartment was pretty typical Brazil, according to Daddy. The only hot water was in the bathroom shower. You can’t tell from this photo, but when you were standing in the shower you could see the exposed copper wires running into that white box.