Howdy Family and Friends! For the first time since we arrived in Brazil we got more than 4 hours of sleep! We slept in today until 10 a.m.! After waking up, as we were packing up our luggage, I caught my cmarea by accident and knocked it to the floor. Unfortunately this was enough to make it not work anymore so I am stuck with our backup camera and ipod for pictures. It's horrible because the megapixels and quality are very poor!
After we were out of our room, we went shopping around our hotel while waiting for Thiago to get out of class. At 1 p.m. we met up with him at the hotel and hailed a taxi and went shopping. Our first stop was at the mall. We ate at the Botafogo Praia Shopping Center in a restaurant called Spoleto. It’s a pasta restaurant where you choose your pasta, then your sauce, then eight different ingredients! It was delicious! We ate outside where the pigeons joined us! After one customer finished his plate, the pigeons enjoyed the leftover contents of his plate!
We shopped the mall for a while and then at 3 headed to the Botanical Gardens. We saw beautiful flowers of all kinds, monkeys and birds. It was relaxing to walk through there. The best part was watching Dave get a drink from the water fountain...a lady who was spitting out a stream of water. But, when you get a drink, it looks like you are kissing the fountain!
We then hailed another taxi and took a longer ride to the New York City Center where we shopped. It had a lot of American shops and restaurants, but was very expensive! We did find iced coffee though--at McCafe (aka McDonalds!) Not only did they have a lot of shops, they were fully decorated for Christmas! Beautifully decorated trees with lights were already on display! It is so hard to even think about that because outside its 80 degrees!!!
After about 2 hours of this, we went to a Pizza Restaurant called Frontera and had our fill of pizza, but not without lessons on how to eat it first! I thought eating pizza was just like in America, pick it up with your fingers and enjoy, but nooooo! You must use your fork and knife. The first thing you do is cut off the crust and place it on a small plate in the center of the table.
That is considered waste and you don’t eat it because it cuts down the amount of food you can consume! Anyway, this pizza restaurant is like a buffet, but once again they bring the pizza’s to you! They have all kinds of pizza that we don’t have in the USA. All the meats, cheese, garlic…you name it, they have it. But my favorites were the dessert pizzas. The first they brought around was chocolate pizza. It’s like chocolate fondue on pizza crust! So delicious! Then we had, chocolate pizza with m&m’s, chocolate pizza with strawberries,
a fruit pizza—guava with cheese (it sounds bad, but it was very yummy! Not a salty cheese, but a sweet cheese!) So many yummy choices! We left full as pigs but very happy!
After supper we caught the subway back to Thiago’s aunt’s home where we stayed up until the early hours of the morning catching up on facebook and blogging, chatting and enjoying each other’s company!
From my very yummy chocolate pizza Brazilian picture window to yours, have a great day!
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