V plays tourist while Mads becomes Brazilian

One main reason for Mads coming to Brazil, aside from wanting to be with the most amazing travel partner ever, is to get her Brazilian citizenship. After over two years of dealing with paperwork and bureaucratic red tape Mads was finally able to go and get her ID and CPF!!

While Mads was off dealing with that, I decided to play tourist. Brad - our friend from the Saturday before (see "Weekends in Lapa") - was kind enough to accompany me to Pão de Açúcar, despite having gone several times before.

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Rio's dazzling icons, Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf) offers a bird eye's view of Rio. The top of the mountain is 395m above the Baía de Guanabara.To reach the peak we took two cable cars stopping to take photos along the way.

At the top I was taken aback by the breathtaking view from this height. We could not have picked a more gorgeous day to do it! The sun was shining and there was not a cloud in the sky. I attempted to take several sequential photos to stitch together as a panorama - but was unsuccessful due to the amount of tourists also taking photos. Regardless I got some nice shots of the city, bay, beaches and Christ (next on my list of tourist attractions).