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December 24, 2005
Christmas Eve Day
After twenty seven hours on the bus we finally arrived in Rio. The drive was long but seeing the country side was spectacular. Most of it was lush green and reminded us of the terrain back in Northern California, while just an hour outside of Rio the national park we drove through had some impressive mountains.
Rio itself must be the most unique city of its size in the world. Huge neighborhoods and skyscrapers hidden between towering peaks, lakes, and the beaches instantly gave me the impression that it was the most beautiful city that we have visited on our trip.
We checked into our hotel in Ipanema and got settled before heading down to the beach for a walk. If you stick your head out our hotel window you can see people sunbathing near the crashing waves of the Atlantic. We watched a soccer game and kids enjoying jumping down sand dunes as we stretched our legs during a hour walk along the Ipanema beach.
Tonight we headed to a churrascaria for dinner a few blocks from the hotel. The place seemed to be moving at the speed of light. Every time we took a bite of food there seemed to be a waiter with steak, sausage, or chicken hears on a long stake ready to pile more meat onto your plates. They even had small cards that were green on one side and red on the other that you could flip over to let the stream of waiters passing by know if you wanted more meat. Even though Todd and I put ours red-side-up to stop the madness, we still had guys coming up to us asking if they could give us just one more sausage or slab of beef. Between the two of us we went through more than 40 chicken hearts. We were completely full by the time we finally called it quits. It was quite a Christmas Eve.
Posted by Peter Mork at December 24, 2005 2:44 PM
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