Hello my friends!
Yes, I have not written anything in 10 days. If you did not see the 27 billion soccer pictures/articles I reposted on da Facebook, you could very well think I'm dead.
Nope!
Well, where to begin? We leave Brazil today. We've had a rather hectic week and a half, having traveled all over this weird and crazy country. While it's been fun, I'm more excited to move on - we're heading to Ecuador next, and there I will be able to communicate! Gracias a Sra. Hall :)
First, we spent a blissful night in Sao Paulo after the Inka Trail. Oh my lanta, that hotel. The 10 days since our stay there have not diminished my love. I'm still convinced the VIP lounge is what heaven looks like.
From there, we headed to Iguazu Falls, where we got to see, well, Iguazu Falls! The worlds most ridiculous set of waterfalls in the history of ever. We spent a couple nights in a rather sketchy but quirky hostel-thing, became friends Cleverson, and nearly died while driving with the Worlds Worst Taxi Driver, and visited Paraguay for a day to shop at this duty free market that is without a doubt one of the strangest gatherings of people I have ever seen. The falls were quite amazing, but I have no wish to go back. I still can't get the smell of the river out of some of my clothes...
Next, onward to Belo Horizonte (pronounced horizontshhh [said in a Hermione Granger Voice]) We stayed at an AirBnB, went to the worlds craziest art museum (Inhotim... look it up. Just do it.) and then saw the Iran-Argentina game. Yes, we saw the Messi goal. It would have been great, if the Argentinian fans weren't all rather obnoxious drunken fools. Maria and I based who we were rooting for on how obnoxious our fellow passengers on the plane to the games were. Iran and Belgium won our love over rude Russians and smelly loud Argentinians.
Next, to Rio! Now, we were only there for a little while, and I could have stayed there for weeks. However, the lack of time did not prevent us from seeing some lovely beaches, eating yummy food (juice bars are the best!) and seeing the Belgium-Russia game. We also saw Christ the Redeemer, which was cool, but there were way too many people there, and the line was super long, and people didn't actually really care about the Big Jesus, and stood around taking pictures of the scenery, which made me kinda mad. Jesus was really cool!
Sorry, that had to happen.
Yes, I have not written anything in 10 days. If you did not see the 27 billion soccer pictures/articles I reposted on da Facebook, you could very well think I'm dead.
Nope!
Well, where to begin? We leave Brazil today. We've had a rather hectic week and a half, having traveled all over this weird and crazy country. While it's been fun, I'm more excited to move on - we're heading to Ecuador next, and there I will be able to communicate! Gracias a Sra. Hall :)
First, we spent a blissful night in Sao Paulo after the Inka Trail. Oh my lanta, that hotel. The 10 days since our stay there have not diminished my love. I'm still convinced the VIP lounge is what heaven looks like.
From there, we headed to Iguazu Falls, where we got to see, well, Iguazu Falls! The worlds most ridiculous set of waterfalls in the history of ever. We spent a couple nights in a rather sketchy but quirky hostel-thing, became friends Cleverson, and nearly died while driving with the Worlds Worst Taxi Driver, and visited Paraguay for a day to shop at this duty free market that is without a doubt one of the strangest gatherings of people I have ever seen. The falls were quite amazing, but I have no wish to go back. I still can't get the smell of the river out of some of my clothes...
Next, onward to Belo Horizonte (pronounced horizontshhh [said in a Hermione Granger Voice]) We stayed at an AirBnB, went to the worlds craziest art museum (Inhotim... look it up. Just do it.) and then saw the Iran-Argentina game. Yes, we saw the Messi goal. It would have been great, if the Argentinian fans weren't all rather obnoxious drunken fools. Maria and I based who we were rooting for on how obnoxious our fellow passengers on the plane to the games were. Iran and Belgium won our love over rude Russians and smelly loud Argentinians.
Next, to Rio! Now, we were only there for a little while, and I could have stayed there for weeks. However, the lack of time did not prevent us from seeing some lovely beaches, eating yummy food (juice bars are the best!) and seeing the Belgium-Russia game. We also saw Christ the Redeemer, which was cool, but there were way too many people there, and the line was super long, and people didn't actually really care about the Big Jesus, and stood around taking pictures of the scenery, which made me kinda mad. Jesus was really cool!
Sorry, that had to happen.
Finally, we headed for Recife. Well technically Porto do Galinas, cuz everying in Recife was either expensive or terrible or both. Our relaxing beach time was only slightly ruined by rain, but the day of the US - Germany game, the weather gods decided to bless us with ~ 30% of the rainfall in June. Nope, that is not an exaggeration. This made the boys trip to the game rather eventful, while us girls had a interesting day playing in the surf during a near apocalyptic storm. (Mari - was that a bad idea? Also, whats the shark situation in Brazil? ;D) it was here we realized that no, our clothes were never going to be dry ever again.
Next stop, Ecuador!
<3 Emma
Next stop, Ecuador!
<3 Emma
