After such a hard day yesterday, walking around the mall and eating endless amounts of sushi.. we desperately needed a relaxing beach day. It had been 2 whole days since we were last at the beach.. ;) I, misswalker.com, drove with Mariana to pick up Monique to then drive to the beach. It was very weird using your left hand to change the gears, but its easy to get the hang of. My only problem was noticing the red lights telling me to stop! Whoops! I got us safely to the beach where we met some more of Mariana's friends. (She has quite a few!). Whilst the Brazilians sat under the shade, I had myself a little sun longer and soaked up every ray I could. We had some lunch there and I tried Palm Tree for the first time. I didn't even know that palm tree had anything you could eat?! I didn't love it.. it's a bit squidgy and reminds me of seafood. That might have been because Mariana and Vivi were munching on oysters and crab right next to me and the smell was whooshing right up my nostrils! We spent quite a few hours there then me and Mariana left to get our nails done. This time I got a beautiful French manicure and it took 2 hours!!!!!!! and it cost me £5!!!!!!!!! Toes AND hands!!!!!!!!!! This is by far one of my favourite things. So cheap, so cheap. Everything else seems to be quite expensive. Gyms, eating, drinking, shopping.. everything. That's probably my biggest surprise! At the salon was a funny little boy, only 3 years old, and he was the son of the lady doing my nails. He listened to me and Mariana talk English to each other and asked, "mum, why are those girls talking so quiet that I cant hear anything. Do they not want me to hear?". Mariana tired to explain we were talking another language, not whispering, but it's quite a hard thing to describe to a 3 year old. After we got our nails done we freshened up and headed off to a bar to drink some beers and hang out with some friends. Again.. quite a tough day here in Fortaleza.. :)
