Wonder to Wonder

All is well in the world of us boys. We visited two wonders this past week. The first of these a natural wonder, the second, a very man-made wonder. On Tuesday, we left Asuncion for Ciudad del Este which is a border city with Brazil about 4 hours away. None of us had visas and Judah forgot his passport at our house. Sounds like an impossibility to cross the border right? Not with our good-looks and charm. Ok, maybe that is a stretch, in reality it was the lack of border checks when you cross this border in a local bus. We had no questions asked and we had no problems.
Next, we bused to the Iguazu Falls which consists of 275 falls along 2.7 kilometers of the Iguazu River. These falls are quite incredible and we were spending most of the time trying to find out which one of the falls Indiana Jones went off in the latest movie. After the day finished, we climbed in the bus and the torrential down-pouring of rain began right on cue.
The next day, we visited the Itaipu Dam. This 25 billion dollar dam employed 30-40 thousand people over about 15 years. It holds enough concrete to build a ten-metre wide road from here to New York. That is a lot of concrete. Now I must say, concrete is not the most exciting thing to look at but the creation was still a wonder. As a result of this dam, many animal refuges were built to preserve the animals. One of these, we were able to make it out too. We were the first people to show up in the day and we got a free tractor ride and a free horse ride too! Very exciting for me (Adam) who has never been on a horse before (embarrassing I know but exciting all the same).
We made it home safe yesterday evening and got back into the swing of things today doing more planning for the soccer seminar with the pastors on November 1st. We also await the arrival of a new member of our team...my brother: Senor Mark Knowlson.

Here are some more pics: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2098139&l=a9ccb&id=116205194