Did I mention any interaction with the friendly natives here?

[DFW]

We were invited to a last dinner for the whole conference, including reps from most Spanish-speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere—even Cuba and Puerto Rico (not even a country, we know, but they got their own delegation anyway), plus Brazil-DUH! We‘re in Rio!-, the USA and Canada. One of our guys was born in Brazil, and my Spanish and French are close to fluent, so we had the event covered. What they did NOT tell us was that after dinner, a percussion band and some of the top carnival dancers showed up and put on quite a little show. I am very fortunate that my wife was there, or else I might have a harder time explaining THIS photo:

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Oh MY. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Wow, my dear DFW! You both look very happy.

And I'll bet your wife was taking the photo.

[DFW]

3. Actually, it was a colleague from Lisbon who took the photo

My wife might have objected to both of us smiling like that…..

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Ah, maybe so. However, I think she knows you better than that! n/t

[DFW]

9. I didn't get into trouble over it

And we are already in the Paris airport, after the 10 1/2 hour overnight flight from Rio. Our 50 minute flight back to Düsseldorf is, of course, delayed by about an hour. Welcome back to Europe!

[rubbersole]

5. There's a name for that grin...

[bsiebs]

6. You are certainly living life to the fullest...

[ZDU]

7. Fabulous photo!

[mitch96]

8. Neat pic. Nice to put a face to the name...nt