Birthdays and Museums and Capoeira, oh my!

Hi all,

Long time no blog. So I´ll summarize some of the goings on of the past couple weeks. On Leanna´s birthday we went out for some churrasco, which is tasty Brazilian BBQ. They are really big on meat here, and we were surprized to hear stories of picky Canadians, only to realize that they are vegetarians, who don´t get a lot of respect around here ;)



Anyways, we had dinner with CM Gordo, Rivane, Soldado and Ani. It was a nice dinner, and was quite cheap, even for all six of us.

We also finally made it to Porto de Galinhas, which we had been hearing about since we arrived. It turned out to be a tourist trappy place, which I´m sure was very beautiful before all the tourists and stores came. The best picture opportunity was with the phones.



We did have fun with CM Gordo and Rivane on the beach, and it was a very pleasant day. Apparently some of the best parts of the beach are the natural pools in the reef. When the tide is low little sailboats ferry everyone out to view them. However, when we were there the tide wasn´t low enough, so we didn´t get to see them... next time.

Yesterday we took a trip to the Francisco Brennand Museum, which is an odd ceramics and painting museum, which displays the work of local artist Francisco Brennand. His estate is on the outskirts of the city, and we had to take two buses, and then a taxi, in a very sketchy journey to the place.



It´s a bit of an odd place, to say the least, but it made for an interesting day.



In the time in between, we´ve been going to more capoeira classes, with Prof. Pitbull and Inst. Soldado. Soldado is taking off soon to teach capoeira in Malaysia, and we had a going away roda for him yesterday.

ok, that´s it for now...
mike and Leanna