Boys Camp Week!

Well we got our boys back safe and sound. They had a fun time at the Peraltas Camp in Brotas, SP - Brazil. Although they do not want to do it next year. Unfortunately we do not have any pictures of the place. But it looked a lot like a Y sleep away camp. It is 240 km outside of the City of Sao Paulo.

We had an interesting time getting there. The roadside looked like driving through Wisconsin on I-94. I say we had an interesting time because along the trip we found out we had a GPS alarm on the car. What is this you ask? I will tell you. The previous driver had a GPS alarm installed that if you take the car a certain distance outside the city limits an alarm will sound. Anti-theft kind of thing we guess. The car does not stop running. There is no interruption to the engine. There is just an alarm coming from the car like you are a police car. It is legal to drive a car that sounds like a police car? We do not know, nor did we want to take the chance. So we pulled over to the side of the road about 100 km northwest of Sao Paulo. We called the insurance company. They had no idea what it was so they were going to send out a tow truck and mechanic to see if he could stop the alarm. The gentleman was coming from about 15 km away. Did he get there? No. We were on the side of the road for about 1.5 hours total. After about an hour, Ricardo tried to remove the fuses to see if one controlled the alarm. However, the fuse remover tool was not in the compartment. So he left me on the side of a Brazilian highway to walk to a truck stop about 100 meters away. They did not have a tool. But he said I should be glad I did not step foot into that place. It was very yucky.

Well no such luck removing the fuses. So is there a way to pull the wires from this thing? Let's open the hood to find out. Well we see the wires, but there is no way to pull them so let's follow the wires. Where do they go? Ahh, here they are attached to the battery. And what is that at the connection? Hey, it is a little fuse. Let's pull it out to see what happens. Hey the alarm stops! You have got to be kidding me!! That is it? What kind of anti theft device is this? A sucky one to be sure.

So we get back in the car and head off down the Wisconsin-looking country side to pick up our boys. And low and behold what is 500 meters around the bend from where we were stopped? A regional mini Police station with policemen sitting on the side doing nothing.

Has the tow truck called to find out where we are? Nope and he still hasn't. I doubt he ever left the station.

But now with Ricardo heading off to Florida for two days, I have to laugh about the situation. It is actually funny once you think about it. But for now I get to double wash all of the boys clothes that went with them because the smell is horrendous!