Dina & Alon at South America: Brazil

Hola everybody,
As you all know we are now trying our luck in Brazil.
After being at "Foz do Iguazu" we took a 18 hours bus ride to "Floreanapolis". It is a resort city located on a huge island with many beautiful beaches. Apparently we got there in the middle of the tourist season and almost every hotel and hostel were completely full, except the ones on the remote beaches. After taking 2 buses to get to our hostel, we discovered that the owner confused us with someone else and gave away our room. So, there we were, stuck on a beach in the middle of nowhere, boiling in the sun with our mochilas- definitely one of the worst days on this trip. To our luck the hostel owner felt a bit guilty and asked her painter friend if we could crash in her studio. The studio was a wooden cabin on a mountain, surrounded by tropical trees. It had great view but because nobody had actually lived there before- was filthy, smelly and full of all kinds of bugs...and we slept on dusty mattresses on the floor. But over time we really started to like the place... once it was cleaner...

We spend the next days lying on the beach like lazy sea lions. Alon has actually finished the sixth Harry Potter book and started the seventh...I am so proud! Half of the time he is trying to unmask Dumbeldore as a pedophile and the other half pointing out every moment in which Harry Potter could have used a shotgun to get the hole mess over with... indeed I have married a literal genius...
We are now in Rio de Janeiro. The bus ride here was HORRIBLE!! There weren't any seats together so I had to sit near a weired lady who read a book about the death of Jesus threw the hole ride and kept giving me strange looks... Alon got sunburns the day before,so he was etching the hole ride...scaring the poor ladies around him...at one point he was etching so bad that he took off his shirt and started scratching himself with it like some crazy person...
Anyway, Rio is a beautiful city, mainly because its built on a beautiful spot on a rocky coastline.
Some days its raining cats and dogs here and the humidity is a killer... (my hair looks like an Afro...) but in general we are having a lot of fun..there are beautiful beaches here (like the famous Copacabana and Ipanema) and the place has got a happy atmosphere to it.
The Brazilians are turning out to be really nice folks, although our communication with them is minimum due to our non existing knowledge of Portuguese.