Brazil

Brazil... sigh...

It's been a month and this is the first I've been able to bear/have had time to write about it. Warm beaches (sometimes HOT beaches), tropical forests, exotic birds, delightful Brazilian guys ;) .... sigh

After being stranded in New York for a day, having to spend the first week back at school playing a perverse game of catch-up, getting a NSERC rejection letter and hearing about another possible rejection, I wondered WHY I ever came back.

Needless to say, the visit was a blast! Spending time in Sao Paulo was a little crazy (we're talking country mouse goes to the BIG city) but amazing! The flight in over the city completely took my breath away, and I took numerous pictures of that vast Urban Jungle (and this is the ONLY place where this term is actually accurate!) if only to prove to people that I wasn't lying!

Carlos took me to pet shops (:D), the out-door reptile habitats at one of the University's institutes, to carnival street parties in small towns and movies and markets.

When we went to the beaches, it was tropical paradise post-cards! Turquoise water, Frigatebirds, Seaturtles, Jungles and earthworms bigger than my hand were some of the amazing treats I got to see! Swimming and hiking by day, sitting on the beach listening to Reggae by night, it was an amazing four days.