Brazil = Beaches, bums, dogs and Jesus Christ

Welcome to our Brazil entry, welcome.

Brazil being the last country in the bank (next country), we thought we would start with a couple of token tourist attractions.

First stop Rio. Beautiful city. People on the beaches in their speedos and bums eating bikinis not so great...especially when they don´t just keep it at the beach. On that note, Brazilians need to see the "undies, undies, togs" ad at home...

First tourist attraction - the sugary and tasty Sugar Loaf Mountain. Jane discovered, after licking it, that it is not actually made of sugar - damn it.

Selfy - us and the Loaf

Not as tasty as it sounds ...

Ainsley hanging off the gondola lines... tricky

Second tourist attraction - Jesus Christ. Art deco and funky. See us hanging with him below. Bet none of you have a selfy with the man himself...

Human pyramid with JC - he is doing a couple of victory arms behind us

Another birthday was celebrated - an awesome bacon and egg breakfast and, once again, lots of meat and caprinhas. This is where we encountered the "stop/go" meat style of dining. We love it. When you have had enough meat and need a mini-break, you just turn your card onto the red side. We preferred the green side. Despite the fact we were at a classy restaurant for Jacky´s coming of age, we soon brought it down to our level with lots of selfies and mirror photos....need we say more.

The birthday breakfast that made everyone else at the hostel jealous...

Green means go - more meat please!

It was this fateful night where Jane turned into a Pirate. She had one leg of her pants rolled up and did a jig.

After being all tourist attractioned out we headed to the beach town of Florianopolis. We encountered the apartmentos way of life - cheap as pad with kitchen, own bathroom and no sharing (in particular, no snorers!). Thanks to Sarah Best who sorted it for us. Was awesome to see a face we knew, i.e. Sarah and met her travelling companions (Linda and Darren from Oz). Not much else to report apart from the following:

- we went to the beach and ate shrimp skewers.
- we met a lot of dogs, including hole in the neck, bung eye and Jess.
- we learnt how to make caprianhas - the drink that turns people into potty mouths (we learnt the hard way). Surprising, given that it is made of a $2 bottle of spirits, a kilo of sugar and a heap of sweet sweet limes.
- we drunk all the caprianhas that we made.
- we freaked out our Argentinian neighbour, Fabian. Circle of Death must be interesting when you are playing it in another language. He did quite well. He didn´t even seemed surprised when Jane told him she earnt a crust by being a pirate. He left to go back home knowing how to jig pirate styles...
- we built sand castles, including after a lot of caprianhas. They were awesome.

Ahh - the finger game... Fabian (far left) finally got it after about 20 games...

Then Jacky and Ainsley had to put Jane on the bus (literally not figuratively) - sad to break up Team Fantasia. Jane´s in Glasgow living it up....speaking English like nobodies business. Jaxs and Ainsley are still being bums in Brazil (don´t worry, we are not showing our bums like the rest of them).