After 36 hours of travel, we arrived in Brazil can't believe it we got stuck on our way here, and unfortunately, we missed Carnival in Rio! I've always wanted to see it with all the costumes and dancing and music, but we just couldn't get here in time. And lost my camera! Fortunately, I've been good about uploading photos to the blog, so I haven't lost many At least it wasn't an expensive camera. Anyway, been to the beach every day. We've surfing, and I went parasailing yesterday. The views were amazing! We've done a lot of sightseeing though we haven't taken the cable car up Sugar Loaf Mountain. We'll probably do that tomorrow. really nice people. They're so incredibly friendly and helpful. Amazingly, we managed to visit the family of one of our classmates from college. They were extremely generous. They made us some traditional feijoada a bean and meat dish. It was delicious! I could happily spend another month here We'll have to come back and visit again.