Oh Man!!!

What a great city! This has got to be one of the most amazing places in the world!

Hola everyone who cares to read this blog, and my apologies for not writing earlier. Ive been real busy to say the least. From the beginning then. After a long fight from seattle, through Dallas and Miami, we finally arrived in Rio. Although it was by far the longest flight of my life, it went by fairly quickly...good reading material, some sleep, and hockey stories from shawn. So after flying to other side of the world...we´re greeted by rain :( and its been raining the entire week before we got here. BTW, my polish passport worked like a charm! Undetermined, shawn and i pressed to ipanema beach. After a few hours we met up with the rest of the gang and headed out to our first Blocko party! Man was it crazy...samba music...thousands of people, drinking, dancing and of course i got my white polish ass right into the middle of it. What made it even crazier was that it would rain pretty hard during the parade...but since it was warm no one cared! Now this is carnival!! That night we went out to a night club, lots of locals, great music...really (and i mean really) strong drinks. One of the funniest things ive seen so far is how inefficiently bartenders work in this country. It takes about 2-3 minutes for the girl to prepare your drink...and its not cause she´s lazy...first she hand squeezes a few limes into the cup, then manually crushes some ice...then struggles while trying to open a the vodka bottle (they go through a lot of bottles every night) and finally pours the liquor to the brim and adds a splash of whatever you´ve ordered. Ok, so that´s enough for day one...i think we got home around 4am. Day 2 (next post)...shawn and i were up at 10am back on the beach!



Welcome to Rio