kavitha and i had possibly the most stressful night of our trip yet. we took the REAL bus to the rodiviario (bus station) in rio, and it took EONS. like an hour and 20 mins! anyway, as we were nearing the station with 2 minutes until our bus to curitiba was going to leave, we moved to the front of the bus and looked panicked. a brazillian lady asked us, ^what time is your bus?^ in portugese so i signalled with my fingers, 7-4-5. she then hurried the bus driver to get us there on time. god bless that lady!! the driver ran through a red light and got us there in the nick of time. PHEW!!
our bus ride was semi comfortable. we had the semi-leito seats, meaning that they somewhat reclined. however, as brazilian drivers are rather sporadic drivers, there was a lot of start-stop action, and i felt pretty nauseous! kavitha had a gravol and was fine.
the bathrooms were also a bit of a hoot. you needed to pull with all your might to open the doors, and to get out, you pretty much had to body check it to get it open. well, i did that, and the door went SLAMMING into the wall, and i went flying almost out of the bus. of course, a guy was standing outside of the bus and was chuckling. sigh.
curitiba has been really rainy. we did the tourist bus today and went to the oscar neymeyer museum, which is in the shape of an eye, as well as the wire opera house and a couple other sites (including rua des flores). our neon coloured raincoats came in handy! also, we noticed that there are TONS of cars here - what gives? i thought this was the urban planning capital of the world!
we also stole a fork from a restaurant. :$ in the name of saving money! :$
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my museum has a first name,
it's O-S-C-A-R...
HHAHAHAHAHHAA
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