Day 6 New Years!

We woke up  around 9:30 and had a small breakfast of eggs and bacon. Today was the perfect for the new year it was 86 and sunny it was great.Then we started to prepare for the New year by helping preparing food for our big feast tonight. There was a lot of food that needed to be prepared. Then around lunch time we ate a small lunch and then played archeage until supper time when we shot of a lot of illegal fireworks and almost started a huge house fire. Then around 11:30 pm we ate all the food and then we waited till the new year shooting of more fireworks. At 12:00 we ate grapes then then we go to a random party.


Cultural

Day 5 Exploring Botafogo

Day 5-30th  Into Botafogo

Overview of the day: Natural Environment

Today was the day that we got to explore Botafogo.  We went Paraque da Catacumba. It is a huge park in Botafogo. We left  the house around 9:30 am after a big breakfast. Today was freezing it was only 70 and sunny. At least it was not raining We got to the park around 9:45 am. We explored the park until about lunch time. A couple of our favorite things at the park were the climbing wall cause we got to climb up to the top and see a great view of the park and all the surrounding wildlife. Then we got to see the beautiful garden and all the tropical flowers. At about 12 we went to eat lunch at a  local cafe. Then after lunch we came back and walked around the rest of the garden. Then we went to a near by mall and stayed there shopping until it was dinner time then we went home and rest.  

Cost:

Food: Lunch at local cafe 8 dollars a person total of 40 dollars

Places we went:

Paraque da Catacumba was free

Shopping mall  60 dollars a person total of 300 dollars

Day 4 Botafogo

Day 4- 29th The City of Botafogo

Overview of our day:
Cultural experiance 

Today, we were able to sleep in and have nice big breakfast. After we filled ourselves up we packed to get ready to leave our hotel. When we finished packing, it was around 1 O’Clock P.M. When we left it was 86 and sunny until about 4 when it started to rain. We checked out of our fancy hotel, and packed the car to leave to go meet Dahrel’s Aunt in Botafogo. The drive was only 30 minutes. As we drove, we enjoyed the scenery. As we arrived, we were welcomed by Dahrel’s family, and saw that there was homemade Feijoada (or brazilian black beans dish.) along with some rice and Farofa (toasted yuca flour mixture.) This is a very famous brazilian dish. After we ate and talked for a long time, it was about 4. After taking out the table and doing some house chores, such as doing the dishes, we unpacked and got settled in for the night. That night We all went to Tupac to have some drinks and desserts. We got the chocolate humado. That night, we had a family game night and practices our Portuguese. It was very fun! When it was about 10 P.M we all retired to our rooms.

Costs:

Food: Breakfast was free from hotel. Lunch was provided by Dahrel’s family. Dinner at Tupac 20 a person 100 dollars total

Places we went:

Dahrel’s family’s house was free