A Surprise Evening

We got up at 1pm, only 5 hours sleep but we were worried if we slept longer then we'd struggle to sleep tonight. It did feel as though we should still be going to breakfast though.

The girls wanted to do some shopping so we took an Uber to Ipanema. Only to find that all the shops were closed apart from chemists and some food shops. So the only thing for it was to go for a chopp, a draught beer.

Then the events guy messaged to say he had some free tickets if we wanted to go to the Sambadrome again this evening. Had we known we could have started in bed until late afternoon! So we walked round to where he is based and picked up some wristbands for this evening.

The seats were on the lower level, in his company's box, around 10 rows back. You did feel as though you were much closer to the action and the spectators did seem more excited, more wrapped up in the whole thing. Though being lower you lost some of the perspective and most of the choreography. Swings and roundabouts really, but all in all I think I preferred the higher position, despite having to sit on concrete and the less than luxurious toilets.

Tonight ran just at late as yesterday, so after getting it at 4:45am, we went for a drink so we could go straight to breakfast. Got to bed earlier this morning by a whole 30 mins, at 7:30am!Read more