Silent Bob

Weds night in Rio and finally getting into the so called travel mode with lou. It took a few days but I think todays adventure kind of kicked it into gear. As I know very little portugese, the brazilians seem pretty warm and open if you at least attempt to speak to them in their language plus the few years of spansih actually are helping since the two languages are somewhat similar. We had a few beers at the local brewery called Devessa which the landlord of the apartment we are renting from pointed us to as she is belgium, the obvious topic of beer was brought up. Most beer here in Rio has been very light but the beer at Devessa actually had some taste to it. About 5 beers and a pizza with actually tapicoa on the crust for about 25 usd, not bad. The tapioca is not the typical tapioca we in america are used to. Its hard to describe but it is good in all ways I have had it, tapioca pancake with banana and duce de leite, tapioca pizza crusts. Today we walked around Lapa an area we metup with other couchsurfers the night before, to check it out during the day. While walking down the street we see two guys walking down the street holding up a map of brazil. Lou then runs back to take a picture of them and then calls me to take a picture of the three of them. One of them happens to be from Ventura and living in brazil on and off for a few years now. The topic of the favela comes up and there is one just up the hill from where we are. The views are supposedly amazing but the favelas are dangerous esepecially if you don´t speak. We head up and take in the views but are only allowed to take photos of certain areas as the are protective of their favela. A bit surreal as guys openly walk around with guns up there. After a few beers and enjoying the scene, we head down on the bondone or cable car which is funny as it´s free if you hang on or 2 realis if you want to sit. We of course take the cheap way out and hang on, the pictures are too funny of Lou, Silent Bob and his friend! After that adventure we head in to Santa Teresa to eat Feijoda the brazilian national dish which is a pork stew with black beans, another food coma. We walk it off by Lou knowing this old house that was turned into a museum with somemore great views of Rio.