All I can say is wow! That thing is a beast! Here are some photos. I'll be uploading a video I took from atop an elevated pavillion later. From there, you can see the rooftops of houses as well as the top of the tree. From what Paulo and his father told me, the reason the tree is so huge is that it has a disease that has made it spread outward instead of upward. Indeed, you can see the way the branches tangle and blast through the area, twisting into and out of the ground, creating its own support system in doing so. Here are some enlarged photos; again, the video will be up later.

Cool sign.... but look at the massive tangle of branches behind it!

Yep.. typical tourist! Cashews come from the tree in this form: they have a "False fruit" on top, which is very sweet. I had a candy made with it earlier today, and could not finish the tiny piece. It reminds me of an intense raisin taste. The bottom part, however, juts out of the false fruit; this is what encases the cashew nut. Terezinha gave me some cooked ones the other day; they are surprisingly very large compared to ours. I would say, in fact, that they are double the size of ours. They still have the same great taste though.

Annnnnd... of course I had to get Paulo to do it too. Hahahahhaha.. what can I say? We're nuts! (It's okay.. you can throw tomatoes at me.. I'm too far for any of them to actually hit.)