hey everybody! things are really looking up for me here! the monsoon which was drowning rio for a couple of days seems to have backed off and we had enough sunshine today to go up sugar loaf which was amazing. done a bit of shopping and a bit of sightseeing, met up with chris fordham, andrew chetwood and his gfriend and some other ppl so thats been very cool. hopefully we'l be sampling some rio nightlife tonight too worried relatives will be relie...

looks like our luck with the weather has pretty much run out. theres a hurricane in the atlantic and boy can we feel it here in rio! its been raining constantly since monday night in paraty. we tried to go to ilha grande but the rain closed in and no boats were running so headed to rio a day early only to fin ourselves in a monsoon! nightmare.... the weather is set to ruin all our plans for the rest of our stay here so if eveyone could keep their fingers crossed ...