So this past week I had the wonderful blessing of spending the week traveling around Brazil with my lovely sister, Meg. We had an amazing time and had some very interesting travels, great conversations, and hardly any fights. I even got to show Meg my Portuguese skills…
Our first stop was Rio. We were blessed enough to have my wonderful “Aunt” Shelia open her doors to let us stay with her. Her boyfriend, Guan, even became our wonderful tour guide. The adventure started the moment I stepped off the plane. Meg was not there waiting. Her plane was suppose to get to Rio 5 hours before mine, and she was to wait for me at baggage, there are only two baggage claims, international and domestic. Somehow Meg got confused, b/c it was in Portuguese (even though the signs had English below, but we won’t get into it). So five minutes after I have decided Mom had meg fly to the wrong airport and was on my way to call her internationally I heard the intercom saying “Aubreee, Aubri Annie, please kjsdfjkjf Info lkdfj;df” I laughed and soon by asking other workers what they said made it to the correct info desk to hug my confused and overwhelmed looking sister! It was a relief and also hilarious as she had her huge, broken, suitcase, overstuffed book bag, and of course her pillow and had been wandering around the airport. We laughed as we left and I talked to the elevator lady about my crazy sister who had ridden the elevator 12 times!
Guan met us after our short bus ride, we went to the apartment, dropped off our bags, and headed for Sugarloaf. We made it in time to Sugar loaf to see a beautiful sunset as we rode the cable cars up to the top. Meg was very brave. The cars were full and on the way down the wind had really picked up, I comforted them by saying the cars were full so the wind wouldn’t effect us, I didn’t mention how the wind and the weight of a full car would add more strain on our one cable carrying us over the ocean cliffs, but we were fine!
We had dinner at a delicious churascaria with Sheila, Guan, Luisa, and Livia, and then called it a day.
Friday we woke up to a very rainy and cloudy Rio. We took the morning talking, then had Guan take us to Cristo Redentor, he had never been! We got to the bottom of Corcovado and road a cog train up to the top. It was very cloudy and we had nothing to see by the time we got to the top. It started drizzling and I was sad, but the clouds parted and we were able to actually see the Christ, and then Copacabana, Sugarloaf, and Ipanema unfolded at our feet. It was great. Then we headed home, had lunch, wondered the beaches and had wonderful ice cream, which I managed to spill all over me.
We left early the next morning for Salvador, I was sad to leave Sheila, Guan, Livia, and Luisa.
Our first stop was Rio. We were blessed enough to have my wonderful “Aunt” Shelia open her doors to let us stay with her. Her boyfriend, Guan, even became our wonderful tour guide. The adventure started the moment I stepped off the plane. Meg was not there waiting. Her plane was suppose to get to Rio 5 hours before mine, and she was to wait for me at baggage, there are only two baggage claims, international and domestic. Somehow Meg got confused, b/c it was in Portuguese (even though the signs had English below, but we won’t get into it). So five minutes after I have decided Mom had meg fly to the wrong airport and was on my way to call her internationally I heard the intercom saying “Aubreee, Aubri Annie, please kjsdfjkjf Info lkdfj;df” I laughed and soon by asking other workers what they said made it to the correct info desk to hug my confused and overwhelmed looking sister! It was a relief and also hilarious as she had her huge, broken, suitcase, overstuffed book bag, and of course her pillow and had been wandering around the airport. We laughed as we left and I talked to the elevator lady about my crazy sister who had ridden the elevator 12 times!
Guan met us after our short bus ride, we went to the apartment, dropped off our bags, and headed for Sugarloaf. We made it in time to Sugar loaf to see a beautiful sunset as we rode the cable cars up to the top. Meg was very brave. The cars were full and on the way down the wind had really picked up, I comforted them by saying the cars were full so the wind wouldn’t effect us, I didn’t mention how the wind and the weight of a full car would add more strain on our one cable carrying us over the ocean cliffs, but we were fine!
We had dinner at a delicious churascaria with Sheila, Guan, Luisa, and Livia, and then called it a day.
Friday we woke up to a very rainy and cloudy Rio. We took the morning talking, then had Guan take us to Cristo Redentor, he had never been! We got to the bottom of Corcovado and road a cog train up to the top. It was very cloudy and we had nothing to see by the time we got to the top. It started drizzling and I was sad, but the clouds parted and we were able to actually see the Christ, and then Copacabana, Sugarloaf, and Ipanema unfolded at our feet. It was great. Then we headed home, had lunch, wondered the beaches and had wonderful ice cream, which I managed to spill all over me.
We left early the next morning for Salvador, I was sad to leave Sheila, Guan, Livia, and Luisa.
In the photos: The beautiful sunset on sugar loaf, the beautiful ride up,
I have a lot more photos, but have lost my camera cord, more to come one day, promise!
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