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So we arrived in Rio safe and sound! Went on the tour of the favelas yesterday! It was crazy!!! We got a motor bike ride up to the top with the local lads from the favelas! My life flashed before my eyes! We wandered through the shanty towns all the way to the bottom. Seeming it's totally normally to have children at 12/13/14 years of age! I was shocked. Also the average amount of children to a family is 7! And one of the guys had two grand children and he was only 28! We are staying in Copacabana right by the beach. I have never seen so many beautiful and fit people in an 8 mile radius! They love to run and have work out stations stretching all the way along the beaches. The language barrier is a little troublesome. Considering the only words of Portuguese we know are thank you and bye! But we are working on it! Chow for now xoxo
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