Dia 17 de Dezembro (continued)
friday night we had tickets to this axé show, a type of brasileria music.
before i went to the show, i was anticipating crazy loud drums, live dancers that know how to shake their hipps, a beauitful singer that is sweating like no other because she is going crazy with energy, and a crowd full of people dancing.
thats excatly what it was.
it was awesome.
and after the show, we even got to meet the singer :D i felt so special !
i love when my family or friends introduce me to people, they always say with such pride, yeah, this is my american daughter/sister/niece/friend.
and i love the reactions of people: people are either overwhelmed and so excited that they are talking to someone other than brasilerios, and start asking a million and three questions about me and how they know someone who had a daughter that had a bestfriend that lived in the US. thats typically the response. or there are always the people that are liek, sweet, dont care.
Dia 18 de Dezembro:
Saturday morning, the girls woke up early to go to the beach :D
i was reallllllllly excited.
because we are in the north of brasil, the waters are supposed to be realllllly warm. after cabo frio, the coldest waters of brasil, i was reallllly excited to seee how warm this was.
it was the most perfect temperture for water. wasnt too hottt, wasnt tooo cold. was justttt right :D
being the tri-state swimmer that i am, i ofcourse got in the water while everyone else stayed under the umbrella to avoid the bleaming rays of the sun. i made friends with a dad and his 4year old daughter."made friends" meaning we secretly had an agreement that if i got took under by the current, he would pulll me out. there arent any lifeguards on the beaches here, atleast none of the ones i have beeen at, therefore you bettter be careful. there was a gooood couple times where i found my bottoms around my ankles and my top, i dont even know what happened. i was getttting wrecked. BUT IT WAS SO FUNNN. and i could stay in forever cause the water was warm :D
after lunch, i was so tired for swimming and the sun, i toook a nice long nap until i was awoken around 930, saying that we were going out to dinner. it being brasil, we didnt leave the house until 11 where we went to this wonderful japanese resturant, had sushi again, i LOVE it so much.
Dia 19 de Dezmbro:
Sunday was spent by the poool because alll the girls wanted to work on our tans. my family has a big beauitful poool with a fountain and so i stayed in it allll day long.
they said we were going out for lunch that day (everyone usually goes out for lunch on sunday cause no one wants to cook) and so i was thinking we would have a late lunch at 2, the latest at 3pm ..we didnt eat until 5pm.
i was straving and not feeeeling so goood cause i neeeded to get food in my stomach so when we went in the resturant i was like, give me alll the fooood you have, now!
it was a self-service restuarnt where its kinda like a buffet but you weight it by the plate. so you could go up the the buffet which i went nuts cause it was alllll seafooood and then when i got back, there were people that kept circling that tables, with huge legs of meat, asking if you wanted to have any. literallly a leg of meat in your face, they had a carving knife and would slice it on your plate. they also would just start bringing us fish and rice and beans (ofcourse) and frenchfries, i was like, did we even ask for any of this cause i definatly didnt hear anyone ask for it. i asked for orange juice and they gave pitcher, just for me. it was so weird but let me say, i ate alot
Dia 20 de Dezembro:
after lunch, we went to a huge malll for some major shopping. the shopping in my city, which i go to on a weeekly bases to hangout because it is a walking distance from my house, is pathtic compared to this malll. it was huge and overly expensive and fabulous. because its so hott here, i usually just throw on a summer dress everyday cause its easier that way so i bought 3beauitful dresses and they were surprisingly cheap (clothes here are so expensive, i considered buying a dress for R$200, 100dollars, cause i was desperate hah)
we also went into a book store and i was kinda annoyed cause i wanted to see a barnes & nobles where i could smell the fresh-ness of newly printed ink of english words, not some português novels. BUT i found a whole aisle of english books.
i was in heaven.
i wanted to buy everything in sight, wanted to go nuts. i wondered the aisle atleast 20times, just touching all the boooks, smiling all over, until my grandfather said it was time to go. i could have (wanted to) stay there all day.
Dia 21 de Dezembro:
you know on the last day of vacation, where you are sad & happy.
youre excited to get home, tell everyone all your stories of vacation, show offf your new tann, and send out all your postcards.
but youre sad cause you dont want to leave the place that you just staying loving even more than your own home?
thats how i felt on my last day in Salvador.
my grandfather asked me what i wanted to do on my last day in the city.
i wanted to to go the beach again :D
we spent the morning on the beach, drinking coconut water, getting sunburn, and having my bikinni bottoms riped from my body. good time !
our flight was at 9 so we left around 6. again, we went from a taxi, to a plane, to a bus, to a car.
even though we didnt get outta the airport until midnight, my father insisted that we go straight home from BH, a three & a half hour drive, one of the worst drives ever, in the history of drives. i just wanted to sleeeep so.freaking.bad but as everyone knows, the drive from BH to Ipatinga is wheree your head bangs against the window every time you JUST fall asleeep.
lets just say when i got home, i slept until noon.
next post: christmas in brasil ! unusual event..
