Isa and Ribeiro were among our first and best Brazilian friends. Isa picked Deanna up each week, and they would buy groceries together during most of our second year in Brazil. We had no vehicle then, only a bicycle and a chariot we’d pull behind. Then Ribeiro sold us a Toyota Bandeirante 4×4 that served for years. Our third daughter, Emma Luisa, is named after Isa. Last week we spent a night with them.
A monkey (marmoset) fell out of a tree at Isa and Ribeiros. The dogs killed the mother, but Isa rescued the baby. She’d been feeding it for about a month when we spent a day with them. “It was so tiny when I started feeding it.” While we were there, they put it outside on a tree, in a closed cage. Its monkey’s relatives, who live up in the trees behind the house, came to visit, and the baby started learning its natural language. The Ribeiros have about five species of wild monkeys that live in the trees around their house. Within a week or two, Isa opened the cage so it could interact with its group. I haven’t heard since then what happened.
Ribeiro helped us find our first rental house in Brazil and sold us our first vehicle. One time they drove about 18 hours straight through from Santarem to Marabá to spend a week-end with us.
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