Sao Paulo 10/16/12 - 10/18/12

We finally managed to leave Paraty and got a bus to Sao Paulo.  The plan was to stop over here for the night, meet up with one of Kristin's previous co-workers, Uma, and start the long bus journey the next evening to Iguazu Falls.

Kristin and Uma worked together on a client back at E&Y.  Uma is still with E&Y and happened to be in Sao Paulo for a 7 week international rotation!  We managed to coordinate getting together for dinner (quite a feat without the use of cell phones) and had some of the BEST pizza in South America.  It was great meeting everyone and catching up with each other.  Thanks guys!  

Pioneer Audit Room Reunion ;-)

The next day was used to upload pictures to the computer, update the blog, return emails, etc.  Yay for finally having a good internet connection and our laptop working!  We had a bus ticket that evening, so we had all day to be productive.  This is where we spent the majority of our day ;-). 

Sao Paulo Global Hostel "living room"

We headed to the bus station that evening only to realize while grabbing a quick bite before the bus, that our bus ticket was for 20:00 hrs, and at this point it was 21:00 hrs.  For some reason we thought the bus was at 10:00 pm/ 22:00 hrs (crazy military time) so we were there by 9:00 pm, but that was an hour after our bus left. Oops!  Luckily, the bus company was super nice and simply exchanged our ticket for the next day at 8:00 pm.  Ever since the beginning of Bolivia we can't seem to manage to leave towns when we "plan" to.  Lets hope that changes soon, we only have a month left in South America and lots to see!