After leaving the club sometime after 4am, stopping for McDonald’s and getting to bed around 6am on our last night of Carnival, we got up at 8am to try and catch a bus to Buzios with our Contiki tour manager’s next group. Fortunately, there was room for us on the bus, and we made the 3 hour journey north of Rio to escape the chaos that is Carnival, most of which I slept for. [Read more…] about Buzios: Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
Brasil
Brazil Bound
Ryan and booked our flight from Quito to São Paulo months ago… without consideration of when the Olympics would be taking place. As it turned out, the men’s hockey gold metal game was taking place right as we were embarking on our journey to Brazil. While we were up at the ungodly hour of 4am to catch our flight, my friends and family back home were awake to cheer on team Canada in our quest for gold. Based on how much fun my friends and I had during the 2010 gold metal game, I felt pretty homesick missing another epic Canadian event. Nevertheless, life could be worse; I was off to Brazil! [Read more…] about Brazil Bound