Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Tidbits from Brazil

Just thought I'd show you a couple of interesting things from our Brazilian life...

This is one set of our keys.  We have two sets of keys, one set for the service door and one set for the social door.  The service door and elevator are for getting deliveries and where you come up from the garage with your shopping bags.  Also, garbage is collected from a little room on the other side of the elevator lobby (which is right outside of the service door).  The social door and elevator are for company and just generally coming and going.  Both doors go to a little lobby for the elevator which goes to all floors, including the three underground floors of the garage.  Our mail and sometimes advertisements get delivered to the social elevator lobby.

This is the service door:
With interesting locks:
This lock is for the funky looking key.

This lock is more traditional key.

This is the social door:

With the same type of key/lock setup:


By the way these photos are from inside the apartment.  You have to use the keys on the inside of the door to lock it.

Another interesting thing is that fresh milk is difficult to find.  Some days the store has several bottles and other days they don't have any.  Most of the milk is box milk that doesn't have to be refrigerated.  (For the Strysik cousins, it reminds me of staying at Grandma Strysik's.)
Anyway, we buy fresh milk even though sometimes it's hard to find.  It doesn't have the length of freshness that we're used to in Michigan.  It typically expires within a few days.  These are the milk containers here (1 Litre), oh how I miss the 2 gallon milk bottles!!  Each one of these bottles are about $3.

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