Girl from Ipanema...

We arrived in Rio last week, and I cannot believe we just left this morning, it went by in a BLINK. Were we really even there? lol :D
I hate to admit we did not do many touristy things there, mostly because the weather was pretty shite. We did make it to Santa Tereza which is this quaint neighborhood up in the hills that you get to by cable car, but other than that we just shopped, went to the beach, and partied like it was 1999! lol
We could not afford to stay in a private room in Rio, so we had to do the dorm thing...for the first time! Yikes! It actually was not as bad as I had imagined, that being said though here are my thoughts as a first timer...picture a room with 5 sets of bunk beds, 10 people total, 8 of which are boys...then picture everyones backpack that is filled to the gills, exploding as soon as they unzip it...so what you get are these piles of everyone`s stuff around their bunk that slowly start creeping their way into the middle of the room, so that sometimes you are wading through someones dirty clothing to get to your bunk...seriously I am not kidding. Then imagine everyone`s differing schedule for going out and returning at all hours of the night...and I do mean ALL hours! Luckily in this respect we had some pretty considerate people, it seems people just came in and passed out in their clothes, I do not think we were woken up once by people coming home at 5:00am! ...maybe because one of the nights we were coming home at 5:00am! We did meet some fun people though...crazy kids! :D