We made it to Rio!!! Yey!!! 4 very long bus journeys later and we made it!

So...Rio so far...I love it!!

We arrived mid afternoon, grabbed a taxi from the bus station and headed to our hostel, Lemon Spirit.

The hostel is nice! Very clean, and there's about 6/7 bathrooms just on our floor so never a queue for the showers in the morning! Ker-ching! The rooms are fairly small and they have the skyscraper of all bunk-beds...it's a 3 tier job! I took one look and dived straight for the free one on the bottom, didn't fancy climbing the ladder to the top after a few drinks!! Vic claimed the middle one above me and we left the top one for some other poor sod to climb hehe!

We literally dumped our backpacks and headed out for late lunch/early dinner, had a little explore round and passed out in bed fairly early on,a bit lame but neither of us really slept in the 24hrs it took us to get here.

The next day we got up and had our free breakfast (getting good at claiming these freebies!!) then we booked a city tour for the next day and headed out to the shops and beaches including the oh so famous Copacabana beach :-) yes we did sing the song lol! Just couldn't resist!!

Well the beach...where do I start!! We both kind of walked with our jaws dropped! Hehe I can honestly say I have never seen so many old men in budgie smugglers, and I mean small budgie smugglers!! I wasn't quite sure where to put my eyes! They were everywhere, playing volleyball, jogging and biking all in these very tight Lycra speedo things! As if that wasn't bad enough, we then came across a guy stood against a post I think and well, it was huge! Like surely you can't go out in public like that? Fair enough he had speedo things on but to be honest he might as well not have bothered! It was massive...would have taken a photo but didn't think he would be impressed lol

Anyway willies aside...we headed onwards along the beach and towards Copacabana where it was a mild 30degrees-that's what I'm talking about! We chilled for a while then headed for another late lunch/dinner and had another chilled evening not really doing a lot! We met our roomies, 4 canadians, the poor sods ended up on the top bunks hehe...but they went out for drinks and didn't return until later on that night when he stood on my foot trying to climb up the bunk,drunk to his bed! Ouch!

The following day was our city tour and a visit to see the big man himself! And he is massive (I'm talking innocently now guys!) I mean he is a very big statue! Super cool though but it was also very busy! We didn't realise it was valentines day so the place was full of couples (wouldn't have thought it was romantic but hey ho) we enjoyed it though and we took our cheesy photos before heading to see a bit more of Rio :-) Next stop was Lapa, an area known for its lady boys (where Ronaldo ended up in a bit of bother hehe) it's also famous for the 'lapa steps' there really cool, made from different tiles and the artist who created them was there also so we got a photo with him :-) he seemed slightly crazy hehe but cool!! We then headed to the area where the carnival takes place, just a quick stop there, it's quite cool to see but obviously better when the carnival is actually on! Finally we headed to Sugarloaf Mountain, by now it was dusk so the views were pretty cool and by the time we got the 2nd cable car to the top it was dark and you could see for miles over the city and all the pretty lights, including the big guy who is also lit up at night.Was a cool place to just admire for a while :-)

We didn't arrive back at the hostel until about 19:30 so we had a quick change and headed out for our romantic Valentines meal :-) complete with caipirinhas and even desert! Cheesecake nom nom nom we was stuffed! Later on we headed back to the hostel for a lovely nights sleep...or so I thought!

So it was like midnight maybe when we made it to sleep...at 3:39am I felt the Canadian guy stand on my foot again trying to get up to his 3rd floor bunk bed lol why he never uses the ladder is beyond me! I pulled my foot away and thought nothing of it...but then something wasn't right...I felt someone at the bottom of my bed moving about, it was pitch black so I couldn't see but by now I was like oh crap there's a guy in my bed!! I squealed for vic who thought I said there was a fly in my bed so didn't really react until my squeal got louder and turned into omg someone please help there's a guy in my bed!! That was it, I jumped out and switched on the light, which then woke up the two English guy who were like what's wrong?! I kind of pointed to my bed and they were like oh crap lol! They tried to help me wake him up but he was out cold so I decided it would be easier if I just moved into another bed lol thankfully it was the drunk Canadian and not some other random weirdo! Needless to say I got a lot of apologies the next morning lol, don't you just love hostel dorms!!

So after my eventful night I was ready for a relaxed day, the sun was shining so the bikinis went on and we headed to the beach!!

I'm still in Rio now so will update later in the week :-)

Here's hoping for a peaceful nights sleep!!!!