We went for a walk around the big lake that
is nearby and had a big coco juice on the way – its non ripe coconuts so the
taste is weird at first – its not sweet which is what I was expecting.
It’s a beautiful lake right in the middle of the city.
After the lake we headed down to watch the
sunset at Ipanema Beach and it was spectacular – and when it finally went down
everyone stood and clapped, whistled and cheered. I have never seen that before everyone
applauding the last sun of 2012! Great
to watch.
We headed back to our apartment - all the
shops seems to be either packing up and getting out before the madness or
taking huge deliveries of beer! There
were thousands of people dressed in white all heading to Copacabana beach – its
quite amazing to see.
We had a bottle of prosecco in the
apartment to welcome in the new year in the UK and then headed out. The beach was absolutely chokabloc – mostly
people wearing white and everyone being very good humoured!
Out to sea all the cruise ships had come in
to watch the fireworks display – there was one HUGE ship, which must have had
about 20 levels!! The excitement was building right up to midnight and when we
all did the count down to midnight and when we hit midnight the champagne
started flowing all over us and the fireworks display started – I couldn’t see
the first few minutes of fireworks because I had champagne in my eyes!!! Everyone was cheering and hugging each other
– it was brilliant! We all then just
stood open mouthed watching the amazing fireworks display – I hate fireworks
but these were absolutely amazing and it went on for about 20 minutes. I wonder how all the sea creatures are
affected by the fireworks – that’s why I hate them so much – they may be
spectacular for us to watch but so many animals don’t understand what its all
about and are terrified by them.
The Heaving Beach!
Happy New Year! Yep it was all a bit out of focus after the champagne went everywhere!
After the fireworks everyone heads into the
water to do their 7 wave hops – you need to jump 7 waves and make 7
wishes! Mark was straight into the deep
end wave hoping with his whole body but I had our phones and money in a
waterproof bag but I didn’t really trust it would be really waterproof so I hoped
the waves whilst not going further than my knees until one big wave took me
down and also took my Lapas Lazuli ring!
Gutted, I loved that ring especially because I bought it in Chile but if
the Goddess of the sea wanted it that much she could have it! I believe that Crystals are transient and my
Lapas Lazuli had obviously done its task with me in the 3 weeks I had it. I am sure another Lapas Lazuli will find me
at some point.
I wanted to dump the phones and the rest of
my jewellery just in case so we popped back to the apartment which is just a 2
minute walk so easy to do and dropped everything off and left our sandals
behind as they were going to get swept out to see too and headed back to the
beach for some serious wave hopping! I
must have jumped a thousand waves! Big
ones and small ones – it was brilliant fun and the water was warm. We stopped jumping occasionally to have a
beer but pretty much wave hopped until about 2am and then headed back to the
apartment to change into dry clothes and went back out to go and watch the
music. There was a big stage on the
beach not too far from our apartment so we headed there to listen to the
Brazilian artists – all the people watching could sing a long knowing all the
words all we could do was dance along.
Brilliant New Year – it really doesn’t
compare to any others as it was so huge (apparently 2 million people on Copacabana
beach!) and it was free and it was hot!!
Great fun, loved every minute.
suzxxx
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