The next morning we boarded a flight to Curitiba… then to Foz Do Iguasu. The stumbling block to the trip was that Mike didn’t receive all of his papers to exit the country before he left the mission home. He needed his passport and visa info with him to go home. We made a few phone calls and it was decided that they would send the papers with the APs to Joinville and we could meet them there at the end of the week… 
In Iguasu we were able to secure a private travel guide to drive and transport us to the sites we had planned to see – this worked out in a fabulous manner! (I highly recommend it if you go! We didn’t have to worry about driving or baggage or how much time we had, where to eat… it was all so good!)
The Itaipu Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. I have wanted to see this for a long time – and it was incredible. It’s one of the largest electricity producing dams in the world. It supplies 90% of the electricity consumed by Paraguay and 19% of that consumed by Brazil. It’s amazing to me that Brazil is 100% self sustaining country.
Iguazu is a very cool place! It’s definitely a top natural wonder of the world. Iguazu Falls is located where the Iguazu River tumbles over the edge of the Paraná Plateau. It’s a place where you can stand at the edge of the deck and literally feel the power of God and His amazing creations all encompassing. You can feel it in ever drop of water, you can hear it roaring pass in the strength of the falls, you can see it in the littlest glimpse of a rainbow or butterfly...
Michael had a cell phone with him to contact people that he needed to visit. One day he made a phone call, set up an appt. He got off the phone and said “ well that’s one more visit to make! I wasn’t planning on it – but I didn’t have this other guys phone #” I laughed a bit – and wondered who this was and how our visits in his mission area would be.
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