The bus left at 6am from school. It wasn't a "school bus" like the black and yellow kind, it was like a Greyhound bus with a bathroom and everything. The power plant was called "Ventos do Sul" (Winds of the South). It took 4 hours to drive there but I slept most of the way. There are some nice pictures of me sleeping that I will try to post on the blog. It was cloudy and kind of cold but there was wind so the windmills were doing their jobs. They guy said they were 100 meters high which is like 328 feet so it was pretty impressive. There were tons of windmills, so many I couldn't count. They were built in a flat, wet, swampy grassland area and there were cows everywhere. While the guy was talking a cow walked up to all of us and started mooing. We had to wear hard hats for some reason so that was pretty stylish. Then we went to a building there to see a movie about windmills. It was about 2 minutes long and was really bad. They guy talking to us was really boring and I couldn't understand anything he said but it was still cool. The guys all around me couldn't stop laughing at the guy for the whole time and they eventually had to leave the room. It was hilarious.
We went to lunch in a random small town that was very wet. We ate at a buffet that had really old Fejoada and other brazilian foods. There was a McDonalds but I had already paid for food at the buffet so I couldn't eat anything big, I still went over and got a milkshake and it was amazing. I really want to have a hamburger sometime but the nearest McDonalds is in Caxias do Sul.
Then we got on the bus again and left for the marine biology thing. That took about an hour. We got there and it was raining a little bit but it wasn't that bad. It's a place for wild marine animals that they find stranded or in need of help and they take them in and help them until they can release them back into the wild. They had lots of birds that I've never seen before, a monkey on an island (I don't know how that is a marine animal), penguins, a Lobo Marinho or "marine wolf" kind of like a small seal, and a gigantic Sea Lion called Gordo. We got to take pictures and stuff and they got Gordo to come up close to us and eat some fish. He was huge. They said that once he wanted fish and he attacked a woman who works there. But he is a nice sea lion, and he only has a small pool and a little area to stay in so I felt a little bad for him. After that we went inside the center to look at whale bones and fish. Then we had a wonderful 4 hour bus ride home and arrived around 8:30pm. We are home now watching a Grêmio game. Both the windmills and the marine center were on the beach. That's why we had to drive so long. I didn't exactly get to walk on the beach but I was near it, and I saw it from a distance. The weather was bad and the day wasn't about the beach anyway so I'll have my Brazilian beach day later.
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