After a great night out to celebrate Erika’s birthday on Thursday night, I was game for any excuse to wrap up the day early on Friday and make the weekend happen. Erika came through in spades with the perfect offer: meet me and my friend (Fausto, visiting from Mexico for only 8 hours on a layover) for a late lunch. And the location sealed the deal: Figueira. This restaurant in Jardins is quite well known, especially for foreigners here. The food is great and there is a huge fig tree growing through the middle of the restaurant courtyard, making it quite the ambiance. So by the time “lunch” happened it really was a late afternoon feast that was more like a multi-course, multi-cocktail dinner with lots of laughs and the precursor to a longer evening and madrugada to follow. Excellent. So, plied with good food, drinks and aperitifs, I was more than game to accompany these two to the airport in an attempt to have an airport party en route to send Fausto back to Mexico. Long story short, by the time we had our many roadies (see earlier post “Life is Only One” for instructions), we had convinced Fausto to change his flight to Mexico for the next day and instead do a Saturday roadtrip with us to the beach instead. So, we immediately redirected our driver to take us directly to the Hotel Unique so we could continue the party, with fresh cocktails in proper glassware beside the pool. After a long night out, an impromptu group sleep over party and an early departure to the beach, we headed off for Juquehy beach, about 150 kms outside of Sao Paulo. And despite some clouds and a major GPS fail (combo of BAD maps here and our newbie status for navigating out of the city), the beach did not disappoint!
Here you can enjoy some of the photos (different ones than those on facebook, so as not to bore you all!)
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