more pictures

Here are some more pictures; I haven´t gone out a lot due to sickness, but I´m feeling a lot better now! You can buy antibiotics here without a prescription, how handy.

This is a traditional dish from Bahia, which a northeastern state of Brazil. It's called moqueca, and it's a yummy seafood dish. It came with rice, pirão (a squash puree), and farofa, which is this crumbly stuff. It came with some really spicy sauce that we put on top, yum!

I'm shy about my Portuguese, but I tried to ask the waitress where the bathroom was and she looked at Ana like "wtf is he trying to say?" Sigh.





Me drinking a caipirrinha. It has sugar, cachasa liquor, and basically whatever type of fruit you want (lime is the traditional).












Ana and Utama, one of her best friends in Brazil. She's a lot of fun. Interestingly, the way they count drinks here is by the number of coasters you have on the table. At the end of the night, you'll have a pile of coasters; they count them up and give you the check. People come up with lots of ways to hide or dispose of the coasters.

Ana and me with her friends Celisa and Andre. Ana and Celisa have been friends since 8th grade. Her and Andre are getting married on the 6th - we're going to the wedding!
This is outside of a resturant, a churrascaria rodízio, they have one in Boston, where it's all-you-can-eat, and the waiters come around the tables with big sticks of meat. Very yummy, though I was feeling pretty sick at this time.

Andre was kidnapped a year ago, he was held for nearly a month. He wants to live in the States now, no wonder!


Ana in front of a mango tree. We couldn't reach any.



















São Paulo.













Some quick pics I took today from the car.





































The facade for a well-respected university/TV station/radio station on Paulista, one of the main avenues of São Paulo.

Mom, there is a famous marathon that starts here called São Silvestre. Maybe you can run it one day!







I got a haircut today from one of Ana's friends, a hairdresser. I like it!

















Ana's friend, doing her eyebrows. She wanted me to document her pain.














That's all for today! We're leaving for the countryside tomorrow, so I might not have internet access until we get back (Tuesday). Then we leave for Rio on Thursday!!

have a merry christmas, happy holidays!!
dan