rain rain rain
its raining. again. i am not kidding you, it seems like for the past month it has rained everyday. i look out my window past the city and into the sky. and you know what i see? clouds. cotton ball clouds, you know the ones that you just want on jump from one to another. dark clouds. flat clouds. but no blue sky. i swear i am doomed to life of rain here. tchau beijoss
where'd i go?
so a lot has happened sense i last blogged blogged. so i think i will start first with... CHRISTMAS IN RIO. after a 20 hour car ride, which i must say was not all that bad, it consisted of stopping for food, bathroom stops, sleeping, listening to the ipod, and getting lost with meu tcho (my uncle) and sergio (who works for the fam and whom is very cute in an older guy kinda way). but it all turned out fine, we ended up getting arriving there on christmas eve day. when we came into view of the beach i was about ready to jump out of the car and run into the water as i turned to olivia to share my excitement to see that water was coming out of her eyes (she likes the beach). that night we had a nice candle lit dinner and went to bed. christmas day felt just like another day, we got up, went to the beach, and met a few nice guys. ok now that i think about it it isn't like another day. but in the world of brasil it is just another day. the best way to describe it would be... hmmm "pass the butter". but it was good all the same. by the way the i stayed at ipinema beach. here is a link if you feel the urge to look it up http://www.ipanema.com/.
THE WEDDING... we left for the wedding on christmas day. the wedding took place in teresopolis. which is way up in the mountains two hours away from rio. and let me tell you. it is beautiful. and that is even understatement. it is green all over. not just green green but a rich green. filled with trees and vines and fog. beautiful. we stayed in a country club. yeah i know super chic. here is link to see pictures of it. http://www.teresopoliscountryclub.com.br/. no joke it was just as beautiful. the next day some women arrived to do our hair at 7:30 am, however, olivia, lenora, and i didn't get up till 10:30... ooopps. haha our hair looked good though. well once we got it done. naturally we were a tad bit late for the wedding and had to pull off a very lady like run in hills down to the wedding. and it wasn't easy. we had to walk down steep stone stairs with nothing to hold on too. i had to take off my shoes. the ceremony took place in front of a lake. i teared up a bit. we all got to throw rice too. after though... well... we went up and had a party! everyone was dancing and having fun. it lasted till the sun went down. keep in mind that the wedding started at 12 am.
NEW YEARS.... in brasil it is a tradition to wear white on new years. because white means peace so if you wear while the new year will bring peace or something of that sort. but did i have a white dress? no. cause i have no clothes here. we went shopping. but sadly didn't not find anything till we stopped at a store down the street and around the corner from my house. liv and i both found dropped dead gorgeous dresses. that my dad kindly paid for. depios, my dad, ju ju bee, a oltra julia, olivia and i went over to laura's house for the count down. laura is Julia's best friend and is is just as much as a little sister to me as the julia is. it was nice we all sat down and relaxed. talking, eating, drinking (i drank coke. don't worry), and listening to music. we all got together in a circle and counted down with champagne. i will admit i felt a bit silly with my champagne glass filled with coke but, but it was all good. we clinged glasses and said feliz ano nova, saude, with a hug. DEPIOS... olivia and i went to real party. festa do radio clube!! tons of people. loud music. and an open bar. who could ask for more? jk jk haha sadly my dad bought us normal tickets and not the vip. but would that stop me? caitlynne jan reier? i think not!! we snuck. or should i say i snuck. olivia tried. and failed. haha but i got in :P but she eventually get in though. i was a little disappointed though. here it isn't tradition to kiss someone on new years at the count down. but not worry a certain friend of mine kiss plenty for the both of us. when the sun started to come up i pulled caiti. i was tired and i wanted to go home. so i quickly found this certain friend who had been missing for awhile flagged down a cab and went home to drink chocolate milk and some pop corn.
but as for now my hands are getting tired and olivia wants to finish her blog so i will finish later. tchau beijoss
p.s.
i will put pics up later!
its clicking!!
so the whole blog thing is finally clicking!! so proud of my self. cant even tell you! i just figured how to change the http of something in my blog... and i did it by myself. ok not really by my self, olivia did help a little. (i had to put that in cause she reads my blog). so now that i have the blog thing kinda down i think will be blogging a tad bit more then have been. tchau beijoss
old news equals paraguay
so olivia and i going to paraguay is kind of old news but i will just tell you about it any ways, ta? well i have been without peanut for hmmm about 4 months now!! and apparently paraguay is the only place to get it. i will tell you this much, that kind of thing can kill a girl. so i asked the "pops" if olivia and i could take the bus there and told him if he needed to think about that is totally chill too. cause i mean this is brasil people!! not the safest place for two pretty american girls to take a 4 hour bus drive all alone to paraguay. so instead of thinking about it he calls our driver to take us the next day (yep folks i have a driver)! so a four hour drive later we were there. finally. we were about to jump out of our shoes with excitement. victoria secret and peanut butter who could ask for more? as we walk into "china shopping" (thats the name not sure why though) and find that the prices are just the same as back home if not more expensive our hearts start to break a little. that is until we found the food and little pieces of our soul started to come back. after we went home bought apples galore and ate half a can of jif peanut butter while watching dirty dancing 2. not going to lie it was a good night.
what a fun filled day
well all, guess what i did yesterday?? yep thats right olivia and i walked our lazy bums down to the centro to buy our dresses for the pops wedding in rio (yep yep that right!! olivia is going to rio with me and the fam!!) got it all on sale too (proud of me grams & mom?). of course on our way there we just had to stop for an ice cream. well hmmm not really an ice, more of a fruit pop cycle kind of thing. that is healthy, right? i have no idea what flavor i got because olivia and i are trying this new thing, where when we go out to eat and when we don't know what to get we ask the the people working in the store what their faves are and get that. claro, on our way back we ran into olivia's counselor (who from across a busy street could tell we were foreign. even when we were dressed up in brasilian clothing) and asked us to stop and have another ice cream. lucky olivia shot the shop keeper a "sshhhh" and he didn't saying anything like "oh, back again menias huh?" just winked ;)
depois (after), we went home and got ready (by getting ready i mean we hopped in the shower, got out, and got dressed. not really getting ready up to brasilian standards) for a fabulous night with rotary. which happened to turn out to be not so fabulous. since we had to sit and listen to the rotarians gives speeches for a little over two hours, while i was dying of an over filled bladder and olivia dying of a not so full stomach. but positive thinking here folks! we did make a new friend and got free food---always a plus right?