Rio! PART 2

dear people.
lets talk about our last day in rio.

we ate breakfast in our hotel, the most amazing continental breakfast you have ever had. lots of tropical fruit, cheese balls and even raw fish. when the fish isn't cooked, you know you're in a fancy place, am i right?

we then realized that none of us had cash for the taxi ride to the christos redentor statue, so sam and i sprinted down the streets of rio in hopes for an atm. we finally found one and got back to kaori right in the nick of time. she was had all 3 kids, in strollers, at nap time. and for some reason the boys didn't like the strollers at nap time. of course.

we packed in the taxi and off we went.

once we got to our destination, we took little red cable trains up the mountain to get to the statue. it was steep. a reeeeaaally steep ride through the amazonian forest. (well, is wasn't really the amazon, but sam liked to call everything green "the amazonian forest") so through the deep, thick, beautiful amazon forest we went, to the very tippy top of the mountain.

i am sure everyone thought sam had two wives. he kept posing with these two different women with 3 little boys basically all the sam age. and then if anyone asked where we were from we would say "utah". speculations confirmed. daniel, we missed you!

and charles slept through it all. after our mango smoothie, we headed back down the amazonian mountain. we walked the streets and ate a great lunch and then caught a flight back to campinas.

 

we had a blast, rio.

so glad we left before carnival.

xx