Day 20 in the Big Brutha Special Bus

THE COW PARADE

Number of hours in the Special Bus: 0!!!

Number of kms cycled: 7.5

Number of times Amy kissed Christ: 1

Today we ended up `spending some time apart´, its all for the good of the relationship in the long run kids! Amy, me, Lisa and John went to the lake, Vikki went on a woodland walk and Kit went bodyboarding in Sao Paulo or somewhere equally as far away.

In 38 degrees of heat we show up in Ipanema, hire a few bikes and WALK to the lake...still not convinced about the traffic in Rio. Every corner we turned there was some helpful guide to point us in the right direction, we must have been looking a little lost/a little out of place. We eventually got the lake after standing for what felt like 7 years at the traffic lights, suncreamed us up, and got on our bikes. We cycled, drank not enough water, put on not enough sun cream, found some more cows, found some potentially dead tramps...all in all it was much fun.

Back to Botafogo for some much needed showers and resting before heading up the Christ. We waited at the wrong bus stop for a long time but eventually made it there just in time to see Vikki leaving! The sun was almost setting which was lovely and meant we had to get the last train back down the mount...we ended up in a carriage with a school trip and the kids thought it was funny to take photos of us "without us knowing", Lisa foiled their plan and then they thought it was funny to take photos of us "with us knowing"!

I had a headache and went to bed...maybe one of the others can fill you in on the details of their evening out...the air con is working now by the way so maybe we will actually get some sleep as opposed to just sweating away our body weight.