1.Us at the waterfall.
2. Gabi at the beach another day, a little out of order, sorry.
3.Gabi again at the beach, so cute huh?
4. the rope bridge we wrote about in the past blog.
all of these pictures are of Parati, we don~t have any new pictures yet!!

So our money saving idea did save us money, but only about $12 US, and it was incredibly uncomfortable and no fun at all. Shelley got peed on by Gabi, even though we had a diaper on her. Gabi had to change clothes twice and then eventually just stay in a diaper. Nate felt like he was going to throw up, and Shelley had to pee for about 2 and a half hours. But we made it, and we are now on the famous Copacabana beach. We got here in the afternoon, lay around and watched English language sitcoms to recuperate. Then we got ready and went out for dinner. We ended up eating pizza at a little kiosk on the beach, and talking to an Australian who was heading 100 miles offshore to manage an oil rig. After dinner we sat and watched a soccer practice for a little bit, then walked up and down the main street, Ave. Atlantica for a while, and then we wanted to go to a grocery store for some stuff for lunch. As we were walking Gabi had to go the bathroom, so we went to a Bob’s which is a fast food chain with the really good milkshakes we had gotten before. When we got there, Gabi said she was hungry again, despite having just eaten a couple pieces of pizza. So we got her a six piece chicken finger thing, and she ate five of them. She has been a non stop eating machine. We stocked up on stuff for lunch, and then went back to the hotel, and called back to the states, and talked to Nate’s parents and Shelley’s Dad.

This morning we had the continental breakfast down stairs. It was quite nice, but the hot water that Nate got for tea smelled like a hospital. He thought it was the tea at first, but then the hot chocolate smelled like that too. Shelley said the coffee tasted odd too, and she thought it was the steel urn they were in. Either it’s brand new or they didn’t clean it very well. Shelley’s mom called and we got to talk to her a bit also. Gabi gets really excited whenever we get to talk to people in the states. We going to head to the beach soon and then maybe wander around a bit.