Brazil is awesome! I am loving the heat and sun! The shopping is good and the place is beautiful.

So on the 31st we went to the all you can eat pizza place, they bring the pizzas around to you so you dont even need to get up. The pizza was pretty good, ate my moneys worth for sure. Maybe 10 slices, so full afterwards. Tried the famous chocolate pizza which was my favourite and other strange concoctions like Dulce de Leche and cheese on pizza. I can confirm this one is discusting!

1st feb: Ate a lot for breakfast and then hired bikes and cycled out 7km to a municpal park with a river running through it and beach volleyball nets and the like. Was a really good day. Ate, swum (in the river with lots of huge fish in it!) and sat in the sun and read. Finished a book I had leant from Pryia and then biked back into town. Dinner at a cheap burger place and then 5 of us got a cheap bottle of vodka and drank and ate watermelon all night.

Today I got up late packed my bag (which is getting more and more full as the days go on) then went for a buffet lunch and went shopping. I bought a summery dress for R$42 (NZ$30) and saw another one I really like but it is much more expensive.

Tonight we leave at 7pm on a private night bus (for around 15 hours) to go to Iguacu falls. I am pretty excited about getting there but I am also dissapointed to be getting to the end of my trip.

Hope all is well back home and that you are getting a bit more summery weather now. Amanda xoxox