BLOG 9: OUR DAY

So as we told you yesterday, our days have been somewhat standardized, although every day brings us new inspiration and more text on the page. So today we decided to photograph our walk to the beach as well as our typical day there.

The walk begins with our first glimpse of the sea, which we see from the crosswalk, which is conveniently located just outside our hostel...


We then have a nice wide sidewalk that leads down towards the sea...



Down, and down, and down....



But when you reach the bottom, there is a great boardwalk that runs the length of the beach to the sand dune. This is a view looking down to the beach from the boardwalk...




At the base of the hill and the start of the boardwalk is Cafe Guaraná. This is where we come every morning after our yoga for our ritual breakfast...


They serve a huge helping of Acai, which for those of you who have been wondering, looks like this!



It's a fruit. Served in a frozen sorbet style, with some bananas and granola... YUMMO!!!!


As you can see, we are happy here.

Its not such a bad view from the breakfast table, either...








After breakfast, we walk down to the beach, and rent two chairs, and purchase copious amounts of coconuts (green, to drink the agua da coco) from these fabulous men- father and son, in the middle and right, who humor our pathetic portuguese with a smile...




After awhile of reading and writing, we go for a long walk up to the sand dune on the far end of the beach, sporting our stunner shades...



we pass lots of vendors (see blog 8) as well as mobile DJ's- pushing carts full of CD's and tricked out with huge subwoofers to blast music along the beach (sorry, no photo yet!).

At the far end of the beach, the locals pull out their boats for repairs. The boats are all really colorful, and sometimes the owners seem to coordinate their attire...



On our walk back to the chairs, there is a fantastic view of the Ponta Negra skyline...



Because it is winter here, the sun sets low on the horizon by early afternoon- so by 3:30 we are off back to the hotel to shower, change, and begin writing. Dinner is normally then consumed at Taiyo Japanese restaurant, just across the street.

We love it here, because they have tofu, and yummy miso soup. We have been almost every night. The one night we decided to try the only other veggie option, the italian place down the road, we bumped into the Taiyo waitress, on our way home. She gave us big hugs in the street and asked where we had been. We felt like traitors, but explained, we needed to swap out the sake for some wine for a night. She understood. We went to Taiyo that next night.

The italian restaurant, Pizza y pasta, has little pineapple plants growing in the window box...nice and some great Chilean wine... but we only have a picture of the pineapples...


So, that's our day really. After dinner, its back to the hammocks for some serious writing sessions until the wee hours. Not a bad ending to a not so shabby day.
Hope you've enjoyed the tour. We'll write again soon with more fabulous photos of this fabulous place, cuz we have decided to stay until Friday... can you blame us?

lots of love, laughter, and may you too one day share in the delights of Acai for breakfast!!!!
OM