Rio de Janeiro: Choco Butts, Caipirinhas with tons of sugar and Acai!

Hey my beloved friends!
I am sure u were already waiting for our next entry, right? So here it is!
Currently we are in Rio de Janeiro, not the capital city of Brazil, but the most fun one!

Rio,the city of beauty!

Here we stay with Johnny, the guru of the couchsurfing community in Rio. He knows everybody on CS and is the organizer of numerous events. Thank you Milton for this awesome connection!

We arrived last Saturday at the GIG airport and there we had already our first problem with the language barrier. Here, for some ATM machines require a second card insertion at the end of the process what we did not know nor understand. Without speaking and reading Portuguese we were lost. A friendly guy helped us out...but he was a little bit offended when I started mocking about this crazy system. Well, that's me - love me or hate me;)

After about 30 min in the taxi we arrived at Johnnys place which is in Ipanema. Ipanema and Copacabana r the best districts in Rio and have the most famous beaches. We are just a few minutes away from the white sandy beach of Ipanema;)

On the first day we bought us new bathing suits...MIKE got a hot bermuda and I was looking for a "classic" Brazilian bikini.

Love this bikini ;)

What I really love are acai beeries. Here u can buy them almost everywhere as shakes or frozen mixed with protein powder or bananas...hmm. If u eat this stuff, it is like a full meal - you are filled up for hours.

On our second day, Johnny took us to a typical Brazilian restaurant, Estrela do Sul. That means a buffet with great salads, all kind of typical Brazilian dishes, sushi, shrimps, etc. But the the best part are the waiters running (literally!) through the restaurant with skewers full of various prepared, delicious steaks excited to cut down thin slices for you until you are full...or even longer:)

That day I skipped to be vegetarian. As u guys know, I am a part time vegetarian...so when the meat is awesome, I eat it but I try to eat meat less often than once a week. However, in Rio it is hard to do so.

Following Johnny's recommendation, we then went to Sambódromo / Passarela do Samba. In January there r so called rehearsals, a sort of preperation for the samba schools that r going to perform @ the Carneval. It is free!!

Samba baby!

So... as you can see, there is a lot to do in Rio...Samba, party and sightseeing.
Another day we went up the Corcovado to see the gigantic statue of Jesus. Up there u have an amazing view over Rio.

Rio at night! (Now you know, why it is also save during night times;)

But what about the parties??
I am sure u wanna see that and u expect it from me and MIKE to show u again crazy party pics, ha?

Of course we have some for ya!

We met a very fun girl on CS, Tally, an exmodel, very outgoing and super cool. She wanted to bring us to a very hip boat party but unfortunately there were some problems with the reservation and this stupid bouncer didn't let us in!!! This never happened to me before in my entire life:(

His problem!!! We went then to Lapa, one of the party areas downtown, having some caipirinhas on the street.

Me and Tally

After this refreshment, we went to a friend of Tally, Angel. He runs Riobohemia, a cool hostel and throws parties almost every night. This evening/night was really freaky...I think this picture expains everything:

me and Tally giggling...

MIKE gave Tally a relaxing foot massage cause she was wearing hot red heels (u know the better they look, they more they hurt!). He has no shirt anymore because a bird shit on him before...really badly! His whole shirt was full of bird puu. I was laughing about this situation I think a full hour! Angel was taking the pics.

Angel of/from Miami (lol)

We also went to the big CS meeting at the Copacabana. Johnny said that on a regular and sunny day, around 500 people gather there weekly. Unfortunately it was raining so there were less people then expected, but still more than 100! We met some fun people at this meeting and made some arrangements to party the next days...so have the impressions how funny it can be in the clubs of Rio!!

CS meeting in Rio! The biggest community in the world (More than 18.000 members).

Freaking out in Club Six (Lapa)

me, MIKE and the DJ in Club Six

Now I think u r ready for some beach pictures! Sand, beautiful people and free openair gyms where MIKE had to stop by and do some work out ;)
I did some squats...I was the only girl :P

Ipanema beach

Benchpressing in the sun :)

Look at the guys face with green shirt:) These two pics remind Me on one of my favorite mocking videos about bodybuilding. CHECK THIS OUT

Conclusion: RIO is awesome, come here and u will see!

We decided to skip the bus tour through Brazil and stay until next monday with Johnny. Then we will fly directly to Buenos Aires...:)

Johnny is one of the best hosts u can get; he even cooked for us :)

Johnny

For the next Rio report we will try to get some of the promised choco butt pics for you. With an average string tanga rate of over 90%, they will be delicious;) Stay tuned!


Kisses to: Johnny, Angel, Tally, Janin, Eric...and maaany other CSs!!!

C ya soon :*