cheers to capirinas on the beach!
Once again, I slept in super late. Everyone else got up super early. Odolpho went surfing three times before I even left the compound! I got up in the dark cave of a room around 1pm, fixed some coffee, ate some small, golden bananas, some leftovers from dinner, and sat outside on the patio making art and listening to people pass by on the street. Their voices were so joyous and tonal at times that it would startle me. Still, I enjoyed listening from inside my private courtyard, slowly waking up with my collage materials. Odopho returned, and then Karin and Danny. By the time they got home it was time to walk out to the main road to find my dear friend Josh 'O Man' Owens!
Josh and I have been friends since I was a freshman in high school. He was then a somphore and we met on the Lacrosse team. We would drive all over Texas following our favorite bands when we were in high school! There are many a good stories between us, and he is a main reason why I even decided to plan this trip when I did. He just got out of the Peace Corps from Paraguay. I hadn't seen Josh in three years, and now he was somewhere in the same little, Brazilian beach town as me!
We found him at the little skate park next to the beach. He was probably looking at the little kids in awe that anyone could have so much coordination. Josh has trouble clapping and walking similtaneously. We snuck up on him and I asked him how much? And sweet embrace! We walked back to the beach compound to drop off his stuff so we could get to the beach. We did just that after a little chill session. He was already carrying his little Man-kinni from previous trips to Brazil. I went into the ocean in my big floppy shorts. And I was the spectacle?
We had a nice Brazilian drink with freshly blended pineapple, blended by hand in a manual blender. It was good and strong and we had them looking out into this pristine cove that we called home for the weekend. We soon got hungry. But before we ate, we went and got 12 beers to take home as an appetizer. s
The three of us went and got a couple plates of fish and some beers. The fish was delish. We topped off the meal with an espresso, and walked home for a nap and beer dessert. I laid down and was out quick. When I woke up soon after, Karin and Josh were both asleep in hammocks outside. So I played darts till Karin woke up, and she played against me till Josh woke up. He finished his previously opened beer, and threw it at me. Good ol' Josh!
There was a band playing down the street that we could hear from our abode. The drunk saxaphonist was sitting in with them from time to time, and he got us in for free. They were playing mostly cover songs, as far as I could tell. Their American songs had a great twist of Bossa Nova intertwined into them, and this made them much more palatable for me, being that I am a music snob.
We sat there till late, and walked around the streets buying beers from street vendors. There were still many people out on the prowl. We made it home to play Backgammon till we couldn't stay up any longer.
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