25 steps of Grocery Shopping (not including the shopping).

Yesterday I had the pleasure of going to the grocery store ALONE for the first time since we arrived in Brazil. I was really a little nervous about all that could go wrong. This is why.

TO THE MARKET AND BACK IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

1. Get all the keys needed to safely leave the apartment (service door keys, shopping basket keys, car keys).

2. Call the elevator and wait.

3. Exit on floor (-2), the lowest level of underground parking.

4. Drive to garage door and use opener #2 to open.

5. Drive into "holding pen" and wait for door #1 to close.

6. Wait for guard to open door #2.

7. Drive through crazy traffic to the store (only 5 minutes away).

8. Turn into parking lot and press button for ticket.

9. Shop, checkout, stop and ticket validated.

10. Proceed to exit and scan ticket to lift gate.

11. Drive back to apartment.

12. Approach building and hit button #2 to alert guard.

13. Wait for gate to open and proceed into holding pen.

14. Wait for gate #2 to close and press opener #1 to open garage door.

15. Park car.

16. Take "cart key" to shopping cart, insert key, turn to release cart.

17. Load cart with groceries and call the Service elevator.

18. Take elevator to apartments service entrance, unlock, and push cart inside.

19. Unload groceries and call service elevator.

20. Lock service door and go back down to (-2) to return cart.

21. Replace cart and release cart key.

22. Call either "service elevator" or "social elevator".

23. Take Elevator to apartment and either unlock door or enter code to exit elevator.

24. Unpack groceries.

25. Hope you haven't lost any keys, locked keys in car, or left anything unlocked.