Today we took our third trip outside of the city. Yay! I told you the weekends are dead until Sunday night when folks meet up in the plaza. That’s cuz everybody around here is either at a chacara (remember that word?) or one of the waterfalls. Today’s adventure comes from the second. We drove about 45 mins on dirt road through the floresta tropical (tropical forest, I guess) to get to the falls. The we in this story is Michol and I, Marilia, Priscilla, and her boyfriend, Elton. It costs about $5.80 to get in but all the cool functions are half-off with a student ID. We’ve been trying to get Brazilian ones but so far our U.S. ones have worked just fine.
We went to Campelo to buy food because the food they sell there is pretty expensive. The line for meat was really long because today is a holiday (Tiradentes or Teethpuller). He led this revolutionary movement to try to free Brazil from Portugal and was killed. So we got our meat from a store off the street. Brazilian barbeque is literally the best meat I’ve ever tasted. We live in one of the boi grande (large cow) capitals so maybe the meat in my region just tastes better because of that. In any case, the meat/seasoning here is so tasty I literally chew the fat and suck the bones when I’m done for the flavor.
Carne is probably going to be my financial demise. There is a university barbeque cart on campus where you can get a plate of beans and manioc for a dollar. The kabobs are like $1.50 and they’re small but they’re so good. They could probably charge a lot more for them and I would still eat them. More sporadically, but I’d find a way.
Now the falls. It is a water park made from natural water and amazingly beautiful. They say everyone jumps in the first time they visit. So we did. It was definitely scary not necessarily because of the height but because it is natural the rocks have moss and stuff. Thus, they are extremely slippery. But we jumped anyway. And survived,lol. Yay!
As we were going to buy popsicles and coconut water we heard this loud scream. It turned out to be a squawk. The restaurant has lots of parrots hanging from the ceiling. One of them started to move. I’m like is that a real bird?? Yep. I’m definitely from the Odyssey Fun World age and because he moved so robotic-like, I assumed he was mechanical. He was not.
So that was the surprise of the day. My mom’s class asked me to take a picture of a toucan. I’ll be on the lookout, but at least now I’ve got something to show :)
One without me in it
part of the park and the beautiful floresta tropical
don't you just love group shots where only one person is looking at the right camera?
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