SUU Nursing Students in Brazil

 My family ended up in Brazil this year because I didn't want to go to London.  My daughter had been begging to go somewhere during spring break.  It was her senior year and she had never been out of the country.  She and I had been trying to take a trip to London for the past two years with no success - once cancelled because of Covid and once because my mother in law, who was supposed to take us, broke her arm a month before the trip.  I was sick of planning for London.  I wanted to go somewhere else.   Meanwhile, my husband had become good friends with a family who was visiting Utah but who lived in Florianopolis, Brazil.  I had met them but wasn't as good friends with them.  They had done a lot of hiking and camping with Craig.  They invited us to spend spring break in Brazil.  In a temporary moment of weakness,  I agreed that it was a good idea to travel 6,000 miles to spend the week with people that I didn't know well.  So we went. I wasn't sure what to expect. 

 Guys.  It is summer 2022 - June 9, to be specific - and I haven't seen most of you in over a month.  Hope it's a good summer and you're not working too hard.  This is my very first post of what I hope will become an award-winning blog.  Pulitzer prize?  Maybe.  Do they even give Pulitzer prizes to bloggers? The whole point is to get some information out there about the trip I am working on for next year.  It has been entirely too long since the SUU Nursing students went anywhere.  I've heard rumors that SheriDawn took a group of nursing students to the DR several years ago.  That was before my time, so I'm not sure, it may or may not have been true.  And Mark has tried to get nursing students to Taiwan for the past two years, which got cancelled each year because of Covid.  I think he has given up the fight on that one.  The way things are shaping up for Taiwan lately, I think it's a wise choice.   Which brings us here.  Some of you have heard me talk about our