Our trip to Niteroi

Sugarloaf Mountain

Fortaleza de Santa Cruz da Barra

A cell where they kept pirates and prisoners

Hello!!! Nisa here, coming out of hiding . So much has gone on the past two weeks or so and we have barely taken time to check in with blog, emails etc. I have had a bad head cold for about three days and am finally feeling much better today thanks to Tia Lulu's special tea she made for me last night. Today Azu and I woke up at 7:15 and got ready to go with Tia Lulu to her ballet studio but since we are staying in the flat next door to hers she didn't realize we both were up getting dressed and left without us thinking both we needed to sleep in. We waited for about 30min in her flat until we came to the conclusion that she had left without us. After having breakfast and planning out the rest the day we set out for what we thought were the Botanical Gardens that we had visited last week. Tia Lulu had insisted we returned and ask to be taken to the orchid exhibit since we had somehow managed to miss it on our first visit. So Azu and I set out for round 2 at the "botanical gardens". As it turned out the place we had gone last week which had an aquarium, waterfalls, ponds and trails was in fact a much smaller park about a 20 minute walk before the actual botanical garden so Azu and I made the journey to the official Botanical Gardens and explored for a few hours. Here are the pictures! (The Brazil vs Columbia game is starting in 30 min so we are going to go over to Tia Lulu's to watch the game...look out for more posts tonight! GOOOOO BRAZZZIIIILLL!!!! The fireworks have already begun!) (Happy 4th of July from Rio!)

 The Real Botanical Garden

(The other one was actually a park)