Brasil and Rio de Janeiro

Hei all love ones and greetings from summer!

We have been here in Rio for one week now and so far so good =) The city is huge with lovely hilly landscape and white sand beaches, something for everyone for sure! So far we havent been doing too much of things here, just been a bit on the city, visiting some museums, having fresh pressed juices for lunch and hanging around with Maija and all her lovely friends. Its almost like beings at home since just yesterday we had Teca and her friends coming for the dinner, and we prepared food with Maijas Petri Dish! We didnt have lamb though but beef was almost equally good =) And with nice introduction i have learned the noble skill how to prepare caipirinas, so be aware Finns when i get back ill bring a suitcase full of cashaca!

And what else, hummm..... Well not too much actually. Last week we had nice time with Niina and Christophe when they were still in town, sun bathing and strolling sround in the city. After they left we have had most of the days with some rain, and more or less clowdy, but its ookoo since temperatures came down a bit. Still the biggest difference we notice after they went back to Finland was that all the mosquitoes started to attack all second-best food sources since Niina with her delicious legs was gone =)

And yes, we did some true activities aswell - we climbed on top of the Perdo da Gavia rock which offered nice jumppa for the legs and the butt and just amazing view from the top down to whole of the huge city of Rio. If i now find Christophes photos from Maijas computer i will put you some of them here. Otherweise seeya soon, we are almost back to Europe again!

view from the big stone down towards west and Barra

kaks Maijaa =)

view from the stone towards east and the Two Brothers stones

Maija and the amazing view

On the way up up up...

On the way either up or down - Niina and Daniele

And the first beer(s)  after getting down tasted sooooooo good! Toffe, our guide Gigi and Aline

Daniele, Stefano, Maija Hoo, Niina and Bruno. Maija YyKooGee is missing since she took the photos

No jo on ilme! After having three-month travel hair i shaved Brunos head. Here Christophe took a photo when it still wasnt ready

And here we go, the evenings first (i think) caipirinas at home

Dinner party from last week with Stefano and Bruna as additional guests. Toffe was mastering the kitchen and made some extremely tasty crepes, yumm.... Aijoo, this photo was taken with "Finnish smiles" on everybodys face. Stefano was the only one not succeeding since his teeth are visible when smiling ;o)

One day we went to the Lagoa and rented for half an hour a swan which we pedaled arond in the lake.

Caipirinas at Ipanema beach. Maija and Niina...

...and here Toffe and Bruno.

On Niinas and Toffes last evening in Rio we went out in Lapa and hooked up with Alex and Suski, also spending a holiday in Rio. And look, this time we had beer - but for starter only before the caipirinas ;o)