Saturday's adventure

This morning we first went to the street market to get some fresh veggies.  Then we drove to Atibaia.  It was supposed to be just over an hour drive... of course, that wasn't true for us.  The first issue was missing an exit because our GPS told us to "keep left" and we should have kept right to be in the correct lane.  So, the GPS changed the directions and took us through city streets (instead of the freeway that we missed).  Besides all the traffic and traffic lights, there was also an accident causing a backup.  I kept looking at the GPS estimated travel time, and even though we were sitting in the car for an extended period of time, the estimated travel time didn't seem to reduce.  But... we finally made it to Atibaia. 
It was a nice town.  We spent some time walking around. 

Here are a couple of real estate listings we looked at.

There were two churches that we wanted to visit, but found both of them closed.  We found a plaque that explained that the one church would be open at 1:30pm and the other church would be open at 4:30pm (it was about 1pm at the time).

 So, we decided to go have lunch at a restaurant that we had passed in our walk around town.  It was a nice place with lots of outside covered seating.  We had a very good lunch and were serenaded by a two man band singing mostly American songs - Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis, etc.

 
We went back to the church after 1:30 and it was open (picture below).

We then went to the Municipal Park Edmundo Zanoni.  It was much smaller than we expected, but nice. 

They had these swan paddle boats.

 After leaving the park, we went to a winery.  It was very interesting.  We parked and went into the building, and all we saw at first was a bunch of barrels.  Then we found where we could go downstairs, which we did.  Down there we found a bunch of people taste testing the wine.  They had a table with a bunch of bottles of wine, and the little disposable cups (about the size of the cups on a bottle of cough syrup).  The taste testing was a serve yourself!  So, we taste testing many of the wines and ended up buying two bottles of red semi-sweet wine and a bottle of port.  All three were $15 (Brasilian Reals), which is about $10USD!!  And it's good wine!!!

After that we headed home, and the trip back was much better and quicker than the trip there.