Getting married: leaving carnaval

Going back to Brazil with was something we looked very much forward to. It would be great to see everybody go happy and crazy again with the 2007 version of carnaval. However, before we were able to through ourselves into that party, we had some work to do. Paperwork! Getting all these papers in order, and with that going to all the official governmental and/or legal bodies to get the paperwork done, took quite a bit of time. In fact, it was consuming so much of all our energy that we figured in the end that carnaval would be celebrated best this year from in front of the television. So we did. And it was good :)

Like mentioned in the previous message, we weren't able to get through all the paperwork in Brazil last February. So, we focussed on one thing only: making it possible that somebody else would take care of the paperwork. Better said: making it possible that San's sister would be able to show up on San's behalf, putting signatures on San's behalf, informing about state of affairs on San's behalf, asking for documents on San's behalf. To make this legally possible, we had to go through one more officila and bureaucratic procedure: back to another cartorio (public notary). Luckily, for these kinds of 'procuracoes' we had to go to a cartorio which was only a few blocks away. It took one morning and before the temperatures were hitting the 30 degrees meter, we were already back out in the streets. With a feeling of relief we arrived back home. From now on, even though we personally were not able to retrieve all the necessary documents, we could still continue the process.

If only all authorities would accept this legal authorization...