Jan 06

Awoke today with the sun out, but Riki gave the bad news that storms are on their way...
We shall see.. After an exhausting game of beach bats on the beach and another coco gelado later we went back to the hostel to see if our laundry had arrived back. But no, the laundry gods seem to hate us and want to smite us with continually dirty clothes.
So we decided the only thing for it was to go have a por kilo lunch. The beauty of this place was its location - it was sitting right over the beach - and the great food. Fresh salads, meat, fish, rice, beans, everything really and you only pay for what you put on your plate. Great for preventing over eating, and super cheap too. We followed this up with a relax on the hammock and then we caught a bus to the town of Lagoa de Conçao where we found ourselves a ATM, thank goodness, and Beanie purchased her first Brazilian havaianas. A lime meringue pie later we made our way back to the hostel by bus. On arrival we were ELATED to find our washing had infact come home, clean and fresh and we bee-lined for some hot showers. By the time we were preened there was a jug/plastic jar of kiwi-perfected caipirinha awaiting us outside. Dan ,Santha and Christian have mastered the art, and I fear we are all becoming rather infamous for our drink. Geecko- the guy on hostel duty at night kept saying "kiwi-caipirinha" and chuckling to himself. After a ´messy´first night some took it on themselves to be on toilet paper duty, maintain a bit of law and order and aim for remembering the night the next day. Kiwis!!!!
We dinnered on cheesy crepes....move over toasties and empanadas......
The night was free from the concept of time (no watches permitted), a bus trip into Flori itself, various taxi rides leading to non-events we found a bar in Lagoa de Concepçao and spent some time talking and teaming- Leading to the founding of ´the Rays´. During our bus ride into Flori itself we were kept well entertained with a little sing-song. Each Ray had to start singina song and carry it for atleast ten minutes until everyone would joing in. This bought out some real classics such as ´wrong way´, `In the jungle´and ´Give me oil in my lamp´- this one in particular didn´t go down to well with the male Rays nor ´Non- Columba-ites ´ But hey it´s only natural we suffer from some side-effects of going there. This little game ended on a high note as Dan gave us a taste of what he learnt while saving the children from AIDS in Africa. ´Camares..........CAMARES!!!!!!!!´ At four we got turned away from everything and decided to taxi back to the beach by our hostel and await the morning. Sitting on a hill in Brazil taking in a new day and this beautiful life we were all rather dumbfounded. Various young couples kept appearing, cows on one side , fishing boats out at sea and various fruit offerings to the seagoddess Iemanje accompanied us into a new day which we topped off with a swim in the sea in our underwear. The highlight by far! Finally feeling slight fatigue we made our wet ways wandering back to the hostel for some breakfast, showers and sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet sleep!