Brazil....or in Portuguese Brasil!

Eric and I went to Brazil for 10 days! It was wonderful...the weather was warm (about 90 degrees everyday) and the water was perfect. We first stayed in Rio for 3 days. Our hotel was on Cococabana Beach and it was nice but we have decided that Rio is not our favorite place. We left Monday for Buzios and we were so happy to get there. It's only about 3 hours by bus so it wasn't too bad. Our hotel in Buzios was amazing. The pool deck where we had breakfast every morning looked out over the bay. It was so much fun to watch the little tour and fishing boats go in and out for the day. Again the weather was perfectly hot and we had plenty of time to expolore the 9 beaches in Buzios. We were walking distance to 3 of them which we visited often. I have to admit we didn't take a lot of pictures because we had been there before so we mainly used our video camera. But here are the pictures we did take.

The second day we were in Rio it turned a little cloudy so we threw some clothes over our swim suits and grabbed a cab to the bottom of Sugar Loaf. We had to take 2 different trams to get to the top of the mountain so here we are after the first tram. 

Here are the picture of rio from the top. It's a huge amazing city the sits among these beautiful mountains. It's kinda crazy how close the beach and mountains are.  The poor areas are always up on the mountains.....so they get the million dollar views. Opposite of the states.

Here is the view of Cococabana Beach. Our hotel is someplace down there.

Eric looking sexy in his magnums....when he went to Nordstrom to buy them the girl didn't know what he was talking about when we asked for magnums. I guess he's getting old! ;)

Here is the view from our Rio hotel of Cococabana Beach. It was kinda crazy because on Sunday they closed down one lane of traffic and opened it up to walkers, bikers, and rollerbladers. They also had some fun street fair type stuff going on too.  

Here we are in Buzios!!!! This is our view from the pool deck.

One day we took a 10 hour cruise to different beaches outside of Buzios...I guess the 9 that Buzios offered was not enough. So here we are trying to look cute on top of the boat.

This was the first beach we stopped at and it was amazing. You can only get there by boat so the beaches were clean and so white. The water was even more clear than at the other beaches too! The guy you see in the picture was so weird...he came alone on the tour. And he had a permanent grin on the entire time. It was weird.

This was our last picture before taking our long journey home. Here is our hotel in Buzios. We will miss it but at the same time we were happy to come home and see our little man again.