Brazil, Day 11: Driving to the Beach
January 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pm (traveling)
Today we got up early, packed our clothes and embarked on a two-hour drive to the beach apartment, where we’ll be staying for the next 10 days. The apartment is away from São Paulo, and it’s right on a beach called Praia Grande — Long Beach.
The beach here is really nice. It’s several miles long and… it’s warm! I know, beaches are usually supposed to be like that, but… it’s warm!! You can swim! In case you didn’t know, in Oregon, beaches weren’t made for swimming. In fact, they weren’t made for taking off your coat. But this is a real beach… a swimming beach.
Soon after we got there, Iza and I went for a bike ride on the beach to see what’s there. We went all the way to the military base at the end, where we decided it would be a good idea to turn around.
Later Cassio and I went upstairs to the game room, where we played fusbol against some other tenants (whom we beat soundly), and then we played ping-pong, or pingue-pongue (at which I beat him 10-6 twice!).
When it got dark, all of us had pizza with Clovis’s family in their apartment, several floors up. We hung around for a while and ate and talked, then Iza, Cintia, Cassio, and I walked down the street to a little restaurant and had açaí. Açaí is a Brazilian dessert kind of like pudding made from fruit, and it usually has pieces of another fruit on top (like banana).
Afterwards we went home and everyone went to bed early (12:30am…) so we could try to get up early for the next day.