BRAZIL comes to the POCONOS..Post Here! (condos, townhouses)

[AlexBR]

I"ll be around but I think you girls have been in very good hands with summering and all the other nice friends from this forum. It seemes to me they know the poconos much better then me.
Like I said before, I"ll be around and if there is any information that I have as a brazilian which can help you girls, I'll be glad to sell to you. Just kidding!!
I will be Glad to help you Tupiniquim girls.

[greentown]

Originally Posted by Ise

Yeah, it's really close now!!

Hum, I already have some places to buy, my USA Mom and I love PA suggested Thanks for the tip about buying in camnelback! I know I have to buy winter clothes there, but I was hoping I could NOT buy them here... Maybe buy them at the first or second day I get there... here is REALLY expensive...
But, I guess I will buy at least one very warm coat, otherwise if I arrive with bad weather just like Greentown said I may freeze before I'm able to buy something LOL

Greentown, do you think I could buy something using the internet before I arrive there?? I guess they won't be able to delivery, couse I'll be still here in Brazil... Maybe if I buy one day before I get the plane... but I don't have the complete adress of the house yet...

Alex, I guess you don't know... but I live in Curitiba, I bet the diference in temperature in the poconos and here was not very big in some of the past days... I'm wearing a coat and I feel cold right now and hey, we're almost in summer! LOL And here it sometimes even snows!! (very very very rare )... But you're right, here never gets below -2 or -3 ºC... But if in the poconos 32º F is the average... Try imagining the extremes...

Thanks you all for the answers!

I think as long as you have one coat and a few sweaters you should be fine to start out. You can always internet shop when you get here if you can't get to a mall. We have been having some strange temps the past few winters, so you never know. Thanksgiving morning it was sixty degrees and the kids were playing football in sweatshirts; by the end of the night, it was in the thirties and very cold and windy.

[Ise]

Originally Posted by AlexBR

I"ll be around but I think you girls have been in very good hands with summering and all the other nice friends from this forum. It seemes to me they know the poconos much better then me.
Like I said before, I"ll be around and if there is any information that I have as a brazilian which can help you girls, I'll be glad to sell to you. Just kidding!!
I will be Glad to help you Tupiniquim girls.

So, I was just wondering, how much it would cost the following tupiniquim question:
"Is there Brigadeiro in USA? What about Pão de Queijo? Is there at least Leite Condensado so we can make it?"

Oh, do you accept credit cards for the payment? Or maybe can I pay in 3x without interest?

[AlexBR]

Originally Posted by Ise

So, I was just wondering, how much it would cost the following tupiniquim question:
"Is there Brigadeiro in USA? What about Pão de Queijo? Is there at least Leite Condensado so we can make it?"

Oh, do you accept credit cards for the payment? Or maybe can I pay in 3x without interest?

OK, I believe you are going to be surprised with this answer. Yes, we have Pão de Queijo! Yes, we have Leite Condensado! Brigadeiro? I beleive you will find everything that you need to make them here. We have also guarana antartica, we have chocolates da garoto and lacta( I love them),we have brazilian coffee( I drink Café Pilão), we have also products from Piraquê and Bauduco, We have Queijo Minas(Yes we have), wow, we have also good brazilian restaurants(Churrascarias Rodizio) in New Jersey an New York. There are alot of products made in brazil that you can find here in the usa, you will not find them in the poconos, you will find them in new jersey, new york and on the internet.

[Summering]

Originally Posted by AlexBR

OK, I believe you are going to be surprised with this answer. Yes, we have Pão de Queijo! Yes, we have Leite Condensado! Brigadeiro? I beleive you will find everything that you need to make them here. We have also guarana antartica, we have chocolates da garoto and lacta( I love them),we have brazilian coffee( I drink Café Pilão), we have also products from Piraquê and Bauduco, We have Queijo Minas(Yes we have), wow, we have also good brazilian restaurants(Churrascarias Rodizio) in New Jersey an New York. There are alot of products made in brazil that you can find here in the usa, you will not find them in the poconos, you will find them in new jersey, new york and on the internet.

Oh thank goodness for you Alex.........I knew not one answer to the questions.......except Brazillian coffee!

[Summering]

I'm off to NYcity tomorrow .........
And hoping to bring back some decent pictures. I will try hard not to move. Lately the pictures are getting a blur. I so, so, need the camera that you can dance with and the pictures still are ok..........emmmhummmm. "Santa, can you hear me?"
I hear that the White House Christmas Tree for ,hummm, was it the Blue Room, came through Milford, Pa. thats exciting.
I am going to pick out my tree from the farm in the Lehighton area that also had a tree at the White House. The trees there look so nicely groomed.
Unfortunately, I have had some big, huge, trees over the years and looking for a thin tree is not all that fun......But, no more cathedral ceilings and where I put it is in a walk-through area.
The first one I got for this home........well, one of the daughters asked "since when did I decide to buy a Charlie Brown".......I really, really, thought I had the most perfect, yet thin tree.
Gosh, having spent years buying trees in New Jersey. It is like heaven buying a tree here in Pa. I can't even begin to tell you the prices for a tree with a bunch of holes in it, back in NJ. I have spent upwards to about one hundred on a "not so perfect" tree.
In Pa you can get a perfectly shaped tree from $15.00 on up.........but, not up to one hundred. I have had trees that should have been in Sears or Penneys "per my brother" that I have only spent $45.00 on.
Anyhow, somewhere along the line I have gone from Brazillian Coffee to Christmas Trees.
Could it be because tomorrow I will see the "famous" tree in Rockafeller Center?
Yahooo.......

[Ise]

Originally Posted by Summering

I'm off to NYcity tomorrow .........
And hoping to bring back some decent pictures. I will try hard not to move. Lately the pictures are getting a blur. I so, so, need the camera that you can dance with and the pictures still are ok..........emmmhummmm. "Santa, can you hear me?"
I hear that the White House Christmas Tree for ,hummm, was it the Blue Room, came through Milford, Pa. thats exciting.
I am going to pick out my tree from the farm in the Lehighton area that also had a tree at the White House. The trees there look so nicely groomed.
Unfortunately, I have had some big, huge, trees over the years and looking for a thin tree is not all that fun......But, no more cathedral ceilings and where I put it is in a walk-through area.
The first one I got for this home........well, one of the daughters asked "since when did I decide to buy a Charlie Brown".......I really, really, thought I had the most perfect, yet thin tree.
Gosh, having spent years buying trees in New Jersey. It is like heaven buying a tree here in Pa. I can't even begin to tell you the prices for a tree with a bunch of holes in it, back in NJ. I have spent upwards to about one hundred on a "not so perfect" tree.
In Pa you can get a perfectly shaped tree from $15.00 on up.........but, not up to one hundred. I have had trees that should have been in Sears or Penneys "per my brother" that I have only spent $45.00 on.
Anyhow, somewhere along the line I have gone from Brazillian Coffee to Christmas Trees.
Could it be because tomorrow I will see the "famous" tree in Rockafeller Center?
Yahooo.......

Yes, sure it is becouse of this very special tree!!!
I wish you have a wonderful trip (first time I wrote "a wonderful tree tomorrow LOL) tomorrow! Don't forget to take pics!

LOL charlie brown is kind of cruel LOL
Just wondering, the trees die after a while? or they keep roots and can be planted again in the garden or something like that...
bye MOM! Enjoy NY and have fun and take care!

[Summering]

I know our Brazil girls are going to the City so here is a glimpse of the tree.
No they don't grow any roots. Once cut, they are the honored Christmas Trees and then.........unless you buy a balled tree.......they are discarded.
The balled trees have dirt and roots, but some do not take in the winter months, even in a previously dug hole outside. Fee buy the balled trees.
Here is your Rockafeller Center Tree.( and area).......the lighting is Wednesday of this week............

The area by the New York Christmas Tree........



The TREE..........it will have lights ,brightly shining soon.









Santa hoping for donations for the needy........



Saks Fifth Ave.......The greatest Windows as seen from Rockafeller Ctr.
( also the Manhattan Mall has great windows, Lord and Taylor, Macy's )



Nope I didn't stop to munch here, but......it was lookin' good!





You can go to the top and see all around...........


Last one of the tree..........
I have sent other pictures to you.........It was a very busy day! ( Sorry two of the Chocolater Store.....and the wrong picture too... but........couldn't get it off

[Summering]

The girls are booked for one night in the city before they head up to our Poconos.
Then they will hop our Martz bus and be up that mountain called "Camelback"
This morning there were some big, big, flurries in the air. Yes, snow..........and so
I hear we might be having some storm this weekend.
Nights are sure getting long. While in the city I kept thinking it was 8 or 9 PM and it was only 4 !
Wow, I have never seen the tree look better in its 75 year history then last night.
Seems with the solar power they are doing a fantastic job of lighting.
I like the twinkling here and there.........I wish I knew how to move a utube to here as I'd love to have the clip of that , now that the lights are on.

[I LOVE PA!]

Yes, the tree lighting on TV was absolutely beautiful!! I wish I was there! Some day, my daughter and I are going to hop a Martz bus right after school and head over to NY to see the lighting...SOMEDAY!
Yes, flurries here too..we have had flurries quite a few times so far this winter, not to mention the 10 inches of snow!