So much to say!

After three and a half wonderful weeks in Floripa, we decided it was time to head out! We ended up in Sao Paulo, the 4th largest city in the world. We stayed with our friend we met in Italy one fateful night 5 years ago, and it was spetacular! He had just finished school so he was able to show us around. The first day we went to two different museums, one of them was alright, just the usual artsy stuff but there was a graffiti exhibition that was really cool to see, and the other place we went to was full of crazy cool art from these guys called gemeos, you should check it out on google, type in street art as well, but it was a really awesome display. Then the next day we went to this tower which overlooked the entire city, which was slightly frightening to really see just how big the city was!! We also went to this giant indoor market, which besides the smell of the salted cod, was a fun experience. Then an all you could eat sushi restaurant for dinner, what more could you ask for. Oh and did I forget to mention the pimp apartment we stayed in?? We stayed with his family but his mom and dad were on vacation so it was just us and our friend Ricardo and his bro. We had two maids that cooked us all our meals (Delish) and who washed all our clothes and ironed and folded it all (she even folded my underwear) Which was such a luxury considering we have been washing our stuff in sinks (with cold water) and hang drying it, which wasnt really cleaning it at all!
So after two days in Sao Paulo we headed out to Ilha Bela where Ricardos family has house and it was also incredible. We spent our days relaxing in hammocks or on the beach (When weather permited) or cruising around the island on a boat blasting Black Eyed Peas (Mind you, seeing a 24 year old Brailian man singing all of Fergies words to My Humps is quite the site) We also hung out with a world class sailor, hes won a bunch of competitions and olympic stuff, anyways he took us to his friends houses. OMG these houses belonged in the poshest of neighborhoods in CA. There were two borthers and one had the house on the left the other the right, and their houses had huge balconies and all the walls were all windows and the view was amazing!! And in between their houses was their pool that cascaded over the deck and their own personal sauna, my dream house for sure!! Ricardos friends came out to the house and we all just partied and had amazing BBQs where they grilled shrimp and TONS of squid and FAT pieces of meat, which was absolutely delicious! All in all our time with Ricardo was unforgettable and incredible!
Now we are in Parati which technically should be really pretty but the rain has been unbearable! Our room in our hostel flooded and got all of our shit wet, ruined one of my dreses, destroyed a book we had just bought and it was just terrible, but the hostel didnt make us pay for our drinks and moved us to our own private room, which helped, but oh man I was pissed. And thanks to this wonderful weather, the beautiful beaches havent been so beautiful. We made it out to this place called Trindade and trekked through the jungle to get to these natural swimming pools, and it was so worth it because they were beautiful! Then it started pouring again, rain worse than I hae even seen in Seattle. All the rivers in Sao Paulo have overflowed and the city is flooding because there is so much rain, so we are trying to get as north as we can without missing too many beautiful places we wanted to go, but they are all beaches so with all this rain, we cant really do anything, which sucks. In Salvador where we started our trip, it has been sunny pretty much everyday since we left, and for the last month its been mostly cloudy or rainy, with only a few sunny days, so for those of you that thought it was always sunny here, its not!!
Anyways we are off to Rio de Janeiro, should be crazy!!! Sorry for the long post :)