Wrap Up

Where now on our way to Rio De Janerio, Brazil. I have never been to Brazil or anywhere in South America before but i had learned a little bit about Rio from a Soccer. i knew of Club that’s hosted in Rio de Janeiro that’s called Flemengo. On our departure from Quito Ecuador was a long journey in itself; we had a handful of flights to catch over the next 2 days. From Quito we departed to Guayaquil where we arrived with 20 minutes of our next flight , you might not think that’s a small window but we all had to run through the airport to our next gate which was in a different terminal . we Just made it to our flight in time and were on our way to Santiago for the night. Where we had to spend our whole day in the airport. That doesn't sound like a good time but we made the best out of it. Our flight service gave us 5 free food vouchers that we used on breakfast at Gatsby's restaurant. Alex and mark both got cereal, Kristen got a egg white omelet and Marybeth and I got bacon omelets. We had wheel chair races, and played tag and hide in go seek in the air port during down times (we kept getting yelled at). Before we left Santiago we ate at Ruby Tuesdays, We all ordered steaks since we wouldn't be eating anything like this for while . We only spent 83 dollars at the airport. We ended up traveling the rest of that day before we got to Rio.

Our Hotel was very Nice and modernized, everything was very colorful in Rio. We went and checked in and ventured on to our room. When we opened the door it was kind of a shock to me, it was a fairly big living room(pictured right ) with 2 bedrooms with 2 comfy queen beds in them. There was a pull out couch that i slept on. We had Internet through out our place, which was kind of nice. Since we got to our hotel at in the morning we went to the pool and met some cool college kids that were on a vacation.

On Monday we ventured to a botanical garden, which was pretty interesting. We had to take a very bumpy taxi; I don’t care what anyone says this taxi was so bumpy I almost choked on my gum. We got to the Garden and Kristen made us go get a map, I just wanted to wing it and go where ever but they said it was better like this. We saw a ton of trees that i had never seen before and they were pretty neat. The best part of this whole trip definitely has to be that we saw a pesky little kid get sprayed by a skunk!! We saw a sloth that looked just like the sloth from ice age the movie and i thought that was pretty funny. Alex can do a great impression of Sid the sloth. We ended up having a picnic at the garden where we ate this yummy bread and pão de quejo (cheese)

Tuesday we had to wake up early and catch a bus to go to Fiscal Island. it was simply marvelous . It was a copper palace; the copper was green like the statue of liberty. We got a tour of the palace and Mark was flirting with our tour guide and got her number at the end of the tour.

On Wednesday we went to the Christ the Redeemer statue. This was AWESOME! We took another super bumpy cab to the statue and took a train ride tour. It was so crowded that Marybeth was straggling and we almost missed our train. We got off the train at the feet of the statue where you can look out and see the beautiful view of the Water, Mountains and the City. This is one of the new 7 wonders of the world and we got to see why. We went to a restaurant at the bottom of the hill, which was a Very simple restaurant, I got a chicken basket and it was pretty tasty.

The next day we decided to sleep in a bit and wake up and go shop a little bit. I got a nice pair of board shorts and then we walked to the beach. Laura (our tour guide from a few days ago) met up with us at the beach, her and her friends were there surfing. We rented some surfboards and headed out for the swell. IM going to be very serious. I SAW A SHARK, they don’t believe me but i watched shark week on television and I know what I saw. It looked like a 15-foot great white shark. Laura and her friends came back to our hotel and we made friends and hung out with some locals.

That Friday we Had nothing going on so we hung out at our pool for most of the day. Marybeth Kristen and Alex stayed at the hotel while Mark and I went and picked up a pizza from Wayra Restaurant and bar. We came back and had lunch together poolside. Laura called Mark and told us about a club that was a few blocks around the corner and that her and her friends were going and wanted us 5 to join them. Around 9 o' clock PM we went out to have a good night. The club was poppin there was people everywhere just going crazy having a good time.The club was called 00(zero zero) and was close to the beach, not to far from where we where staying. Since the legal Drinking age in Brazil is 18, Laura’s friends and us bought two bottles of Brazil liquor . You should of seen Kristen Fist Pumping in the club it was pretty funny and we all ended up having a great time at 00 . We ended up spending a little more money that planned but it was well worth it. Kristen and Marybeth went back to the hotel at 1am. Me mark and Alex stayed out and went back to the beach for a fire with Laura and her friends , we got back to the hotel at like 5am!

Flights - 3579.80 $ USD or 6,361.26 BRL

Hotel and food – 1025 $ USD or 1,821.41BRL

Natural site - 139.23 $ USD or 247.41 BRL

Cultural site - 71.06 $ USD or 126.27 BRL

Beach & shopping - 118.38 $ USD or 210.36 BRL

Built site - 54.87 $ USD or 97.50 BRL

Ruby Tuesdays 85 $ USD or 151.04 BRL

Wayra’s Pizza 11 $ USD or 19.55 BRL

Drinks 90 $ USD or 159.93 BRL

Total= 5174.34 or 9,194.75 Brazilian Real’s

Total from last week 89,268.35

We have 84094.01 left