One of the things I will miss most about Brazil is the beautiful and untouched beaches. It’s a no man’s land…such great beauty and very clean.

Sometimes when I pass by the beach on monday morning at 10am the beach is filled with people everywhere…swimming and exercising and just having a great time. Most questions in my head is..”it’s Monday why are they not at work”? Well I am yet to find someone who can help me with my answer to that question. So will let you know when I do get that answer.

Here are a few pictures of our family on the beaches of copacabana, Leme and Ipanema.

Such a beautiful back drop

Father and daughter moment

Sunny day

Yeap he does that to the girls and they love being up high

Lol…

WhatsApp world…

I love this night shot…no filter just me and the colors

Pure nature at its best.

Brazil Exploration Continues..

So a few things we are starting to like about Rio is the fact that you can escape the hustle and bustle and in 15min to 1hour you could visit another island and still enjoy the beauty of Brazil.

Today our family took the ferry and visited Nitorio. Even though we did not get to have a picnic as planned we still got to meet lots of people and tour a mesuem.

Here are a few pictures to show our journey

That morning our girls joined a girls soccer team to play and have some fun…

Getting ready to start the game

Aasha in her stands read to defend her post

Having fun is what it’s all about

A visit to Niteroi

My son acting as the security person

Beautiful waters

Actually I had no idea the photo came out like that…looks like mj is holding a string…

Yeap that’s some of the fun stuff people do…playing with toy cars and racing around

Creating great moments….

Brazil Exploration Continues. ..

Today kids and I ventured out again and went with some awesome friends to Paqueta Island. It’s about 1 hour 20min  ferry ride from the city center to the Island.

And the price was a shocker to me…with nice looking ferry too. It cost us $2.50 per person for both in and out and kids under 6yrs don’t get to pay. So it really was a low cost, but super fun activity for me and my kids.

When we arrived there, first thing we noticed is that there are no cars.  horse and tricycle and bicycle are their form of transportation….

So we first walked around and had a pretty tasty lunch and after we decided to have acai for dessert…and oh my…acai made right with caramel was the bomb…it was sweet and nutty and yummy…

After our acai experience we decided time to rent some bikes and ride around the whole Island.

We spent 1 hour 30min  riding our bikes around the whole island and it was really an awesome experience for me and my kids.  Watching them ride and stop and pose for a picture and making friends and just living to the fullest was very rewarding for me as their mother.

Thanks to our awesome friend Danilo and Leslie for inviting us to have this amazing experience with them.

Here are some pitures of our day in Paqueta Island…

His first tapioca on the streets…with banana and Nutella inside

She is marveled by the amazing view

Ok so that’s the public restroom but I think it’s really made for the men in brazil but in Ghana it can serve both genders…

My little carioca superman…Carioca is what they call people from rio

Loving the island life

Our rides are ready

Had to kiss and make a wish at the Baobab tree on the Island…my wish was for my kids to grow up and know that I gave them my all and the best way I know how to be a mother to them. And have them feel  my love for me. This was my wish.

Destiny’s time to do the kissing and wishing stuff

We are family

Such wonders of our CREATOR

Riding in the yellow cab…

Mj found a new friend on the island

Let’s get this party on the island started

Welcome to the Island

Most rides …

Snacks we had while riding the ferry…made out of flour…first originated in the early 20’s

Our ferry

Beautiful sites on the way

A castle in fisco Island…wow it’s really pretty

Me and my twin…

Taxi station…lol…

Brazil Exploration Continues

Learning to play the handpan on the street was really cool and fun…

This is an instrument from Switzerland and it was invented 15yrs ago. And it’s called Handpan…pretty awesome the tune you can make out of that…

Taking tips from the master…

My kids are so cool…willing to learning from strangers on the street…

I got the hang of it now….

It’s so much fun…

Brazil Exploration Continues

Such a beautiful day and thanks to great life long friends…the kids and I got to hike the famous sugarloaf mountain in rio de Janeiro.

While others took the cable ride up the kids and I decided to take a more challenging way up to see the beautiful city of Rio…and from the pictures below you will see that it was worth it…

It cost R $71  per person to take the cable…but to hike it cost us 2 bottles of water and some serious breathing techniques…but we made it to the top and enjoyed every bit of it.

Cable ride to the top…

Hiking up there…

And the fun started…

We will make it up

Not easy but we can now say we did it..

At the top you can scream and it’s all cool…

They love the view

The first cablecart

Beautiful restaurant at the top

At the mesuem on top of sugarloaf

Beautiful view of rio

Brazil Exploration Continues

So when we visit each country we fund out one thing we can learn and add to our soon to be our book of travel.

Now in brazil we knew that while here we have to learn capoiera which is originated from Africa.

The slaves that where brought from Africa by the potuguese people created this capoiera..the slaves where not allowed to communicate to each other since the masters thought they are planning something so the capoiera was a dance and expression that the slaves used to communicate with each other. When brazil got independent capoiera was banned in the country.
And year later a capoiera Mastre  found a way to take capoiera to the government house and convince them.
So that’s when capoiera become a national organised passionate form of martial arts in brazil…it is filled with dance, and expression of love and drumming all on one single move.

Here are a few of our capoiera moments while in brazil

That’s marcus and I doing Ginga  (probably got the spelling wrong but that’s how is pronounced )

Some capoiera moves and marcus having a time of his life…lol!!!

Drumming is part of capoiera

Marcus posing with our Mastre at the school of Senzela

Part of the fun…

Our new capoiera family in rio…

Awesome is what we are all about.

Brazil Exploration Continues. ..