Interactions with the locals

Ola!
So since the last post a lot has happened, to Eleanor...
Whilst we were still in Rio on Saturday night we went to a street party in Lapa, where they close off all the streets and set up stall with cheap caipirinhas and banging music. Our spirits were not dampened by the torrential rain, in fact they were lifted by the screams of Eleanor with a cockroach on her foot!!
Not only can eleanor lure cockroaches with her beauty but also tramps from the favela Roçinha- we went on our own tour on a local minibus where both Shauna and Eleanor sat on my lap, with an absolute legend of a bus conductor who took the piss out of us Gringos (we had Sumner and his friend Matt with us- who could translate the portugese for us), and then proceeded to sing Celine Dion in Portugese. When we were at the bottom of the favela we bought a couple of kebabs and a sneaky tramp managed to come and kiss Eleanors hand. Ha.
From Rio we went to Ilha Grande. It was paradise. And finally some sunburn....Keelin has burnt feet. Shauna on the other hand is bronzed....NAAAT.

On our first night there we went to the town where there was a Brazilian street party, with loads of stalls and traditional music- and ridiculously good chocolate cake- the sort of stuff that would make Mumma Gav weak at the knees!

A small bit of bullying and Keelin taking the bull by its horns first,literally,we both jumped up on the bunking bronco, putting our out-of-use irish dancing muscles to use for all of .... 10 seconds.

We were approached for a quick samba with the locals and Keelin jumped at the opportunity with a handsome, sweaty, beast of a male suitor. (see below for the awesome pictures Shauna captured).

After dragging Keelin away from her new love interest, everybody persuaded Shauna that a 12km hike the next day would be a tremondous idea.  Sadly no pictures were taken of the hike but arguably the beach that we hiked towards- Lopez Mendes was worth it!!

Tomorrow we are off to Salvador bright and early at 7.30am, we´ll keep you posted on any other interractions and happenings. Missing you, love Keelin and Shauna xxxxxxx