Caxambu, Brazil

Hola chicos y chicas! Estoy en Caxambu (pronounced Cashambu) en Brazil. Acabo de llegar a este pequeno pueblo y esta muy lindo. Totally different from Rio de Janeiro. Do not get me wrong, Rio is wonderful but Caxambu is more my style. I loved Rio. I hung out at the Ipanema and Copacabana beaches and even went Samba dancing in Lapa (but I cant really samba) so I was embarassed and sat our most of the dancing. It is fun to watch everyone do it to a live (yes live) band at the Rio Scenarium.
Rio is very expensive and the money here goes by a lot quicker than in Peru and let me tell you Portuguese is NOT like spanish at all. I mean I can get a little here and there pero yo no falo Portuguese. The only word I do speak is Obrigado which means Thank You. HA! And I think that the Brazilians are a little bit stuck up and really look down on you whe you do not at least try to make an effort to speak the language before you ask for English. The food here is amazing. Especially the meat... yummy sausage and carne and more carne y coco y sucos de frutas con Laranja em Banana.
The Hostel that we stayed at in Rio was called the Rio Backpacker y yo ya no estoy para estos trotes (I am not up for this drama anymore). Todo eran jovenes de como 20 anos and it was so hard to keep it real with them. Since the majority of them were in Brazil to parteeee. I am in Brazil for a cultural experience which includes partying but not all the time and I am just too old for a Dorm Style room shared between 10 people. Instead, we moved to private room in the Rio Backpacker in Copacabana which was better. I will include some pics of me at Ipanema and at the Copcabana Beaches. We also snuck into the Copacabana Palace Hotel to see how the other side vacations... it was not so great but we saw famous peoples pics.