Samba!!!

The day after our Lapa street party was assigned hangover day... and then we decided to go to the samba rehearsal...baaad idea. we prob shouldn´t have gone since we were exhausted, and it doesn´t start till around 11pm. When we got there we were blown away, not just by everyone´s ability to actually dance the samba, but also their energy and love for their local band. Carnavale is essentially a giant samba competition so each area has their own band, arena, colours etc, just like footie. It was pink and green madness. It was truly amazing at first. Then they continued to play the same song for THREE HOURS... and not once was their a dip in the enthusiasm, i[ve never seen such energy. We felt pretty lame, cos we were knackered, especially since dancing samba is frickin impossible and ur ass gets tired in about three minutes. There was this amazonian type bodybuilder gorgeous lady (yes, she was all these things) in a sparkly sequined pink dress that danced samba for the whole three hours and long after we left. (well not that long after we left. at around 4.30am there was a shootout and some people got killed, but no worries cos it was at leeeast 15minutes after we left, so, yey)

Random aside, saw that annoying hairdresser from that show "the salon", you know the one who advertises tresseme, or some crap. whatever, he was there. And no photos from it, cos i was kinda worried about my camera, but i needn[t have been, despite the abundance of AK47s, they[re not interested in my chunky camera ; ) And it felt pretty safe there, it was people of all ages and backgrounds and brightly lit. Everyone was just having a great time. The grannies totally put us to shame, cos they were rockin the samba... love. it.