Hi all, Rio was an amazing place, we had a ball, especially for Mardi Gras, it started about 8:30pm and finished about 5:30am, i have never in my life seen so many people in oneparade. We saw 6 Samba schools perform their parades, each taking about 1 hour with about 10-15,000 people in each, the band averaged about 500 people per parade. The had about 8 massive floats each also. We had perfect seats and it didnt rain. Afterwards we got home and got 3 hours sleep before flying to Sao Paulo and then London. Fi's friends Nicky & Steve picked us up and we are now in Portsmouth relaxing with their 2 girls Chelsea & Sophie. Having a fun time even though they are quite the handfull.Funny note - our heater here is set to 20 degrees, which is the same temp our Air Conditioner was set to in Rio... HA HA.... ciao for now. We are here for 2 weeks and seeing "Wicked" this weekend. Will possibly be able to catch up with everyone in London some time next week, before heading to France for a week.