hey all! we´re safe and sound! we´re still in rio, but we moved to ipanima for a bit of change of scenery! cococabana was amazing! we did the day trip where we saw all the sights. jon went to the maracana to see the football and said it was absulutly amazing! the city is stunning and the weather has been the best it has been for a couple of weeks. on sunday we went to a favala funk party which was just a party in a huge wherehouse in the favala, there were in door firewoorks which seemed like a really cool idea untill we were caught under them and had hot sparks rained down on us! yesterday we went to the surfing beach and rented some boards and went surfing for a while, when we got back we got trapped in the lift which tom didn´t handle so well. 2moro we head down to ilha grande for 3 nights then on to sao paulo for 2 nights and then down to florianopolis where we´re going to meet up with the guys we´ve been staying with in rio! lots of love to all jon, alex and tom