Lost in Brazil!

Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:45:30 +0000

Hello again all,

It has been great hearing from you. Life for us has begun to speed up a bit. I´m not sure where I was when I wrote last but we took a couple weeks pretty easy just hanging out on the beaches of Uruguay, went skydiving there for Trista´s b-day....that rocked! From there we traveled back to Buenos Aires and then off to Rio! When we arrived in Rio my friend Christine´s father was nice enough to pick us up at the airport which was great, rather interesting because he spoke very little English and we were truely lost with Portugese!

Our first week in Rio we stayed in a very nice hotel in a great quiet neighborhood. We spent most of our time at the pool which was a flowing river. We were able to hit the beach a little as well. We have some great photos of the carnival parade at the Sambadromo. I will try to post them when I get a chance. We then joined our 40-day tour. We moved downtown Rio and started our first night off with a little partying. It was great to hear so many people speaking English again!

We then hopped on a bus and headed for Paraty. The bus ride was a little miserable after the previous night but well worth it when we got there. The town was very cool, stone slab streets that get washed by the tide. Our second day there all of our group took a cruise out in to the bay, which was beautiful. The water was awesome. We spent most of the day swimming and floating on our fun noodles and drinking some beer. it was great!

We made it to Sao Paulo which is a ridiculiously large city! Estimated at 20+million people.


Til next time!

Will