Our New Brazilian Friends

It was our pleasure to host Udo and Liduina Fiorini from Campinas (60 miles west of Sao Paulo), Brazil, this 4th of July weekend. The picture you see here is of Udo and Liduina in Pap (Bob) & Peg Kimpel's 1966 Mustang right before Udo took it for a ride. Udo said that his son, Leonardo, would have loved to have been there to enjoy "the dream" of driving the Mustang. It was very obvious that Udo LOVED driving this antique.

The evening before, Thursday, July 3rd, Mary and I enjoyed dinner with the Fiorini's at the Monterey Bay restaurant on Mt. Washington overlooking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We had a wonderful time of fellowship.

Liduina is the technical director for Fortitech, a New York based, nutritional company that provides a variety of premixed nutrients to many of the major food manufacturers around the world. She is the proud mother of Leonardo (24) who is a recently graduated mechanical engineer and Catalina (23) a beautiful young lady studying to enter the pharmaceutical field.

Udo currently works in sales for a major Brazilian furnace manufacturer. Udo and I have partnered to have Udo publish Industrial Heating in Brazil. We have done one issue already and it was quite successful. Both Udo and Liduina would like to do more in the publishing field.

Tomorrow, July 5 (Saturday), they are headed to Washington D.C. to do some sightseeing. From there, they will head to Philadelphia to fly home to Campinas.

They are here in the United States also celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. We had a lovely time with Udo and Liduina and we wish them God's blessings and safe travels.

For more pictures of Udo and Liduina, please click here and look for the album called Fiorini's In Ellwood 4th of July 2008.