After the favela tour we were just going to go back to the hotel and rest up before dinner, until Laura and Will suggested we try and make it to Sugar Loaf for sunset. This idea was so great and allowed us to see Rio in a different light (literally).
You get up to the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain by cable car. There are two legs of the journey, first to the small mountain beside Sugar Loaf and then to the top of Sugar Loaf itself. We had a few bumps along the way when the boys failed to get in the same car as us...twice... but it was unforgettable nonetheless.* The cable cars don't take too long and we spent a lot of time taking pictures with Rio spread out before us.
Enjoy the beauty. You can see Christ the Redeemer lit up white in some of the pictures.
*Actually the second time they missed the car it was because they were going to get some food. Danny bought a slice of cake while Laura and I waited in line but we ended up getting in the car without them. Danny was going to bring the cake down for us to share but they wouldn't let him on the cable car with food so he had to eat it himself in less than a minute.
OH, it wasn't just a "slice" of cake. It was a mammoth mound of chocolate, caramel and malt balls. And I don't think I "ate" it. I force fed myself. I inhaled it. It didn't even taste good anymore, but I kept eating it. I didn't want to waste the cake.................. that my per diem covered and had absolutely no monetary value to me. I suppose I just didn't want it to go to waste.
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