Samba!

We went to a bunch of museums today and looked at super cool buildings and churches and walked around the city and took a tour of the National Library. But those are boring things to write about, only the pictures are fun, so I'm just going to skip to night time.

We met this guy named Chum Roa at the hostel, a really cool guy who actually saves up every year and goes traveling. We went out to eat pizza with him, which was amazing, and then went to Lapa. Following Chum's lead, we got to Rio Scenarium, a really nice looking Samba club. It had these colorful lights on the outside, was three stories tall, and looked fancy. We went inside, and it was awesome. It wasn't that crowded since it was a Tuesday night, but the band was still good and watching the dancers was just incredible. There was this one couple, a tall guy and a girl in a red dress, and they were just going crazy. Spins and really fast footwork... it left all three of us speechless. We actually all tried dancing with strangers, and even though we weren't good, it was really fun (and there was this one long-haired Asian guy who REALLY sucked so we didn't feel that bad). We left the fancy club and went to a smaller club down the street, and even though it was crowded, small, and not as fancy, it was even better. The live band was so good that it left us talking about it for days, and Chum actually went back two nights in a row. With one singer, one guitar, one ukelele, a tamborine, and two drums, we didn't expect such amazing music to come from them. The dancers here were even crazier, we couldn't even see their feet move sometimes. Here, we didn't dance but we had such a great time watching and listening. We just sat and enjoyed for a really long time. Once the band finished up, we left as well and didn't get back to the hostel until around 1 AM.

Wow, this is the shortest post yet. Looking at all my posts, it makes me sad that readers will never understand how exciting my travels actually are. Especially since I'm not that good at describing them. But really, the samba club was sooo cool. Just imagine the craziest dancers you know, plus the best singer you know and the best musicians you know, add some locals singing along with the band, multiply that by a hundred, and then maybe you can visualize how awesome it was. Traveling is so coooooool.