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Apr. 6th, 2009 11:04 amAfter living in Hawai'i, the word "exotic" kind of lost its luster. Yes, I got spoiled being surrounded by paradise for 20% of my life. There are beautiful places, there are exciting places, there are breathtaking places but the feeling of "exotic" doesn't hit me, until the idea of heading to Brazil came about. The excitement, the anticipation was too much really! Our trip took us to Rio de Janeiro (I am still getting tingles of excitement as I write it out!!)!
I can't believe that we were actually there! But we have a few hundred photos to prove our footprint there! We were warned many times by everyone to whom we mentioned of our trip, to be careful. Rio is a very dangerous place with a lot of muggings, and stuff. I actually left behind my earrings and dawned on some slippers for earrings (I found these small steel earrings in the shape of beach slippers with flower designs - appropriate no?)! I think what they failed to remember was this often is found in the favelas (shanty-towns) and we were not planning to be anywhere by it.
22 - 26 March 2009
We took a Delta-Northwest flight that would get us into Rio on Sunday morning. The flight was okay but the service sucked. The flight attendants were so robotic and so "fake". They treated everyone like they were school children or something. ah well, they weren't about to spoil our mood. On the flight, N and I got to watch Slumdog Millionaire. It was good cinematography and music but I didn't see what the big fuss was all about. After about an hour into the movie I got bored - will I be beaten up for saying that in public?? What did dampen our moods when we got to Rio was the gloomy cloudy weather. sigh. We stayed at a hotel right off the beach at Ipanema. And were greeted with Christ the Redeemer on our left (he's up there in the couds) and the beachfront on the right.
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I can't believe that we were actually there! But we have a few hundred photos to prove our footprint there! We were warned many times by everyone to whom we mentioned of our trip, to be careful. Rio is a very dangerous place with a lot of muggings, and stuff. I actually left behind my earrings and dawned on some slippers for earrings (I found these small steel earrings in the shape of beach slippers with flower designs - appropriate no?)! I think what they failed to remember was this often is found in the favelas (shanty-towns) and we were not planning to be anywhere by it.
22 - 26 March 2009
We took a Delta-Northwest flight that would get us into Rio on Sunday morning. The flight was okay but the service sucked. The flight attendants were so robotic and so "fake". They treated everyone like they were school children or something. ah well, they weren't about to spoil our mood. On the flight, N and I got to watch Slumdog Millionaire. It was good cinematography and music but I didn't see what the big fuss was all about. After about an hour into the movie I got bored - will I be beaten up for saying that in public?? What did dampen our moods when we got to Rio was the gloomy cloudy weather. sigh. We stayed at a hotel right off the beach at Ipanema. And were greeted with Christ the Redeemer on our left (he's up there in the couds) and the beachfront on the right.
( Read more...picture heavy )
