12 May 2016 Os Cruzeiros

The past few days haven't been too eventful. To get a good souvenir of Brazil we've been trying to find a Cruzeiro's jersey.  The Cruzeiros are a very popular soccer team here in Minas Gerais. We've been looking in malls and even a flee market. We've found quite a few, but Felipe said they weren't the official kind. We finally found one that was official, but it was more than I was willing to pay, even with the big difference between U.S. dollars and Brazilian Reais right now.
While we were at the flee market, we saw two monkeys in a tree. Apparently monkeys like that are like squirrels back home. I got a picture of one, but it's hard to see because the lighting is really bad. I would post it, but I'm having a hard time getting pictures on the blog.
As everyone knows, soccer is very popular here. Still I was surprised one of my first days here when fireworks were going off and the entire city cheering just because a goal was made. I'm not exaggerating, I could hear cheers from all the neighbors!
Brazilian politics have been taking a lot of attention right now. Brazil is in a really bad recession, and they're upset with the president. All week they've been working on the impeachment process, and today she just got impeached. Hopefully things will start to get better now.