Vila Germanica

Christine announced to me this morning that there was something wrong with the toilet flap. I looked down and the flap was missing meaning the plastic door keeping the toilet cassette smells and liquid from splashing up into the bowl. I looked at her and said, I have a replacement in the garage. 

When deciding on what backup parts I would need on this trip, I knew that the toilet cassette was something we needed a backup for. I couldn't bring a whole cassette but I could bring a replacement flap mechanism. It cost almost the amount of the cassette because it is the part of the cassette that has moving parts and pliable rubber seals that can fail or dry out. It was an easy replacement but I still enjoyed the small victory.

I paid up my bill and said goodbye to the German family and gave them some recommendations for places to stop on their way to Iguazu.

We headed out to a supermarket and passed by another best acai store and bought some groceries and then some acai. There was a playground there and the kids played with other kids on the playground and let their ice cream melt.

We drove through Pomerode one more time then headed south to Blumenau, a larger town that has the second largest Oktoberfest after Munich. We were a month past their Oktoberfest season but there is a small Vila Germanica where Oktoberfest is held and we stopped there for lunch. 

We then headed off toward the coast to the town of Penha. There was a nice campground next to the beach for $11 per adult and half for kids. The kids clambered out and disappeared on the playground with one kid that lives on the campground and Christine took them to the beach. I tried fixing another window shade that broke and got half way through before they came back and cleaned up and had left overs for dinner. A storm system is off the coast and threatens to shower the area for the next week.