Made It to Brasil, Already Loving What I See

So after a lay over in DC and about 18 hours of traveling, I made to it Rio safely. I must say, checking in online at United probably saved me at least an hour in line. so fyi to all, always check in online when you can.

anyways, i found josh at the airport since he arrived 2 hours earlier than me. luckily, he picked the right terminal to find me, so i already knew our traveling skills were back in action. of course, we hit the beach instantly after we checked into our hostel, el misti (awesome place, great staff, great people, kinda crazy uncontrollable music, with triple tall bunks). we went to cobacabana and ipanema beaches where everyone and everything i read about was right, beautiful sand and beautiful girls. there was a term in the lonely planet book about the brasilian girls, fio dental (dental floss). in other words, thong th-thong thong thong. sisco was playing in my head. soccer circles, footvolley (volleyball with your feet) and lots of sunbathing filled the beach atmosphere. surely nothing you can complain about. and for some reason, i was totally incline to try something new on traveling, getting a hanna tatoo. i was considering maybe investing in a real one, but i thought i would try out a temp one to see if i liked it. (pics will follow once i figure out how).

we rounded out our first day by hitting the night life in Lapa where we heard a funk party was going on. we ended up checking out some other bar which had some vibe that we could handle instead. the funk party was saved for day 2. anyways, it was a brasilian rock band and another band that did interperative dancing which at first sounds WEIRD but turned out to be a rockin time where we danced with the whole club, joining hands at times til 3 or 4 in the morning. it almost felt like a close gathering at a wedding or something. but it was just really everyone drunk off their asses. and of course being jetlagged and all, we slept in til 2 the next day. but by far a great way to start our trip to Brasil.

next post will be the rest of our trip in Rio including a list of highlights so far. We~re trying to figure out our way now to Salvador in the next state up called Bahia. DUDE, Brasil is huge. If we could take a bus to save money, you know I would. but a 26 hour bus ride just wasn~t in the plans. Peash.