To the Beach!
Our hotel is the greatest! We live so close to the Copacabana beach that we decided to go there for the day, and were not disappointed!
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| As you can see the beach is quite amazing to look at, but even better to play in! |
When we woke up we of course ate our free meal and then returned to our rooms to get ready for our trip to the beach. It was a very short distance so we decided to walk there. It was jam packed! Most likely because of the World cup going on, in which I was extremely exited to go to. We stayed at the beach for hour and then took a break to eat lunch at a small vendor that was walking by with his little cart. After that we stayed some more until about 3 o'clock.
Copacabana beach
Copacabana beach is such a wonder place that that has so many cool things about it. First of all is the New Years Eve part on of course, New Years Eve! It a really fun time where people stay up all night a socialize on the street listen to other perform. There is usually a huge concert with a well know band that plays, attracting a couple million people! Another cool thing about this beach is that it was originally called
Sacopenapã which means "the way of the socós (a kind of bird)". There are also two historic forts build on both end of it, Fort Copacabana and Fort Duque de Caxias.
After the beach we dried ourselves and then wandered the streets, looking for souvenir shops to buy souvenirs. After we bought our little trinkets we headed to a fancy restaurant to eat and returned to the hotel to relax until we went to sleep.
After going to the beach we decided to go to the National Library of Brazil, it was a little afternoon when we got there and went right after. Library's can generally be boring places but it was really fun exploring all of the things inside the library. There was this one section called Teresa Cristina Maria photograph collection, that has 21,742 pictures aging back to the nineteenth century, THE NINETEENTH CENTURY! That was in the 1800's! It was also a very fancy place, there was nothing that looked odd and everything looked like it belonged there from the beginning. Who knew a library could be so interesting? Brazil has really blown all of us away and changed our minds on alot of things. As you can see from the pictures there are floors and floors of books. I wish we had cool old library's like this in Apex. After we visited the library we when out to dinner, it wasn't any where fancy. We're back at the hotel tomorrow and we'll be going to the slums which will be pretty interesting, but also pretty scary. Hopefully we'll be alive tomorrow to blog about it.
