29th December 2009 - First day in Brazil

After arriving at the airport, we all headed back to Mariana's place for some lunch. Some Brazilian foods, including: Farofa, which is a type of flour. You can mix it with some beans and it tastes yummy. We also had some sausages, salad, rice etc, and each filled our bellies to the rim. Straight away I dumped my bags and we headed off to the mall to get me a brazilian sim card, and to pick up some booze for our New Years trip. Vodka, for example, soooo cheap. For a 1 litre bottle it was about £5. So we bought a few.. to drink with this delicious Brazilian soda: Guarana. Its a little like a lime soda, but really refreshing. Might miss it when i'm gone.. :)

After some shopping, me and Mariana headed to the beauty salon. Ahhhhhhhhhh. Heaven. One of my favourite things so far. We got waxed from head to toe and then our hands and nails cleaned, stripped, massaged and painted. Its incredible, it was £20 for EVERYTHING.. and we were there for about 2 hours. I was a very happy girl :)

After being pampered we relaxed at Mariana's place and started to pack for our trip. Unluckily for me, all my beach clothes were still somewhere in Europe in my lost suitcase, so I had to wear most of Marianas stuff. But at least I wouldn't get the Brazilian fashion wrong ;) Her friends came around to meet me, we ate pizza, talked English, a lil Portugese, and by 10:30pm I was exhausted. Completely pooped! So off to bed it was.... my first half day in Brazil and I had already tasted their food, seen their malls, been treated like a princess and met loads of lovely people.

Kinda crazy to be here.... :)