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Me and Knate went to find the plush hotel the girls had booked the day before to see if we could check in before the girls arrived which wouldn't be till 6ish. They were cool with it, we were buzzing to get out of sweaty hostel seen. The morning came we were there bang on the dot my room wasn't ready so we checked out knates. He wasn't happy it was in the basement with no natural light, he kicked off and got moved. We then hit the roof top pool for abit, I got my room which was all good. Like the players we are we got champagne in the fridge. I was some happy to finally have my own space I unpacked my whole bag, had a few beers and washed all my boxers in the sink leaving them drying round the bathroom a nice treat for Lauren. We then left to get the girls from the airport I was a little nervous I don't know why. He was there waiting on time at the right gate. They came through I was chuffed to see Lauren we hopped in a cab back to the hotel. Lauren had a ruff flight so wasn't feeling to well, we drank the champers on the roof with a view of Copacabana beach then slipped off to the room not to be seen till the morning.
Woke up about 9am and I was well excited to destroy The posh hotel breakie! Got down there it was unreal I'm talking bacon, scrambled egg, loads of cereal, masses of fruit and juice this was the life. I think I embarrassed Lauren by getting to much food and not eating it but to be honest I didn't give a f***. We went and met Knate n kaz on the roof, obviously had to wait for Knate to get ready then he head out for the Christ. The people that worked at the hotel were not used to dealing with people like us every time you asked them how to get somewhere there response was get a taxi. For the amount of money you pay to stay there I thought they were w***ers, people in hostels are much more helpful.
Anyway we found the bus stop and we were off. We got there and it was chaos so busy, loads of people are tring to get you business. We had just missed the train so we paid some guy to take us up on his van! We got to the top bought I cue jump ticket, I'm still not quiet sure what cue we jumped, we then waited in the wrong line before working out what we needed to do. Another wait and another van and we were at the top. The views were unreal from the car park area. You have to go up another few flights of stairs, once at the top you realise how big the Christ is its f***ing massive. Its a humbling feeling to be at one of the most iconic landmarks in the world. Pictures are hard to come by because of the amount of people about. Me and Lauren got some good photos together and I managed to get a sick pano of Copacabana and Impanea beaches. Everyone is giving it the original Christ pose and you are always in someone's way.
There's is also a funky little church up there. We wanted to stay for drinks but know here excepted credit card. We went back down to cue for our bus and it was again chaos so we took the easy option and got a taxi to the pro bar and had a few afternoon drinks their.
We slipped of to the hotel room for a few hours whilst Lauren got ready I head out and got the supplies Malibu for the lady and 51 for me. I may or may not have got a checkup bobs with Lauren's credit card that mystery has not been solved yet. We meet Knate n kaz on the roof and head out too a few bars in Copacobana and Impanena. We was in an Irish bar with a pool table and some d*** thought we owned the place banging people out the way with pool cue I was pissed told him to f*** off we got in a fight and had to leave. Smooth as f*** on Lauren's first full day in rio endless to say that was the end of the night!
Woke up feeling ruff but no broken bones which was good, had an apology to make, hit the bad ass breakie one more time then it was off to the hostel I had booked the other end of the beach. When we got their we was told we couldn't check in until 2. We went out for some food I tried to get Lauren into acai but she was having none of it. I took Lauren to see the famous Lapa steps where snoop filmed the video beautiful, the sun was out and Lauren got some good snaps. Walking back to the metro with Lauren was abit of a nightmare the Brazilian lads seemed to take quiet a shine to her, can't blame em. We made it back to Copacobana where the hostel couldn't find my reservation but it was all good because they had an apartment for us with unreal views of the beach. We checked in the sun had took it's tole on us Lauren had a nap and I watched extra time and pens of the carling cup final. The clocks had gone back which confused everyone, we went to meet Knate n kaz in Impanea. We stumbled across a sick samba bar so we stayed there not even attempting to dance mind because we would be put to shame. We had a stroll down the beach front gazing a rio's beauty at night, hit a sick pizzeria and were done, the rip leg of the trip was done next stop Paraty. I was praying we would have better weather than when we was there.
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