Hi everyone!!!! So guys, any suggestions to who is the bloke in the background!?!?!? He happened to appear as we were taking a photo!!!! Well we are having a ball still, and even more exciting is that we are going to the Sambadrome tonight to see the big parade!! Will be uploading the photos asap!!!! We struck gold BIG TIME!!! Both very excited and will be sambering away till the early hours of the morning! (it doesn't finish until 6.30 am!!!) so will ...

Buen Dias!! So we made it! After a bloody long flight (kierans hand is squished) we arrived in sunny Rio to sweltering heat and freezing cold beer and so we have decided in actual fact that we may stay here and never come home!!! Only kidding!!! The hostel is lovely and our host Patricia has really clued us up on where to go and what to do. We wandered into Catete (the local town) and found places like this internet cafe, the metro, and beer! Had a lovely meal ...