Twist My Arm

Okay, I can get talked into alot of stuff....so on Friday night I did make my way with the others to the Red & Black Ball. Cost was 80 Reias. $40 USD to get into the Rio Scala.

The night started out with us drinking in our room.

My roommate is Moira, who just got off a 7 week trip. She is ending her travel here in Rio with Carnaval and going back to England. Mid 30's, separated from a Canadian boy.

She had a bit of a tough time on her trip, as most were 18 year olds and it had a bit too much drama for her.

Moira was so happy to meet me and my new friends....Alice, Mark & John. John is another fellow from England. Early 40's and he has been travelling for ages and ages. Sold his food business. We think he has a bit of cash to his name.

After drinking up everything in our mini bar fridge and finishing off a bottle of white wine Alice & I purchased, we headed over to Lapa in a taxi to see the street party.

We sat at a table outside and had a few drinks watching the madness. Loud Samba music and all kinds of costumes were all around us!!! Super fun!!

Around midnight, we made our way to this area called Leblon to get to this "cheesy disco"...which our tour rep had described a fun thing to do (via taxi....and boy can John negotiate prices!) It was very expensive to get in, but we thought why not? We were all dressed up in red and black to fit in ...so let the party start!

The place was huge and had a very large stage with live performers. There must of been over 25 people playing all sorts of instruments. Mostly drums. All samba music.

Wow! Not what we were expecting......but we all agreed samba music beats YMCA tunes anyday, so we hit the dance floor.

The dance floor was very busy with all kinds of interesting people. Most not wearing alot of clothing. We saw.......body art painting as clothing. Tassles as clothing. Transvestites with we have no idea what you call it clothing. You name it.

We didn' t really dance other than move a bit on the dance floor and stare at all the crazyness around us.

We can't dance anyways.