May your sons have gorgeous mothers and rich fathers

Someone tried to sit on me on the bus the other day. I must be invisible. I didn`t let that put a dent in my day though.
We´re in a hole at the moment. It´s called Campo Grande and it´s the capital of the region. It´s so shit. After coming off a 21 hour bus ride from Floripa, where the bus smelt slightly of toilet the whole time, I was feeling sick and weak as a result of this as well as not having had any decent food (most options at roadside houses are some form of fried meat).
But thank God for buffets! They love buffets here in brasil and they have surely been my saviour. Now usually I wouldn´t do the buffet thing but there is always something that I can eat, whether that may be carrots...lettuce...lol
so when we arrived here it was straight to the all you can eat variety.
Backtracking a bit to the place we came from (floripa):
We arrived in Florionopolis (floripa) on NY´s eve. The weather was perfect for the beach, lucky as our hostel was right next to it and a canal. THe hostel had some kayaks so I suggested to Josh we go kayaking! yay! We went down the canal which was fun. But then. current was a bit stronger than I thought and I was a bit weaker than I thought. So we turned around and I kind of realised that I didn´t actually know how to kayak! I made absolutely no progress against the current. So I ended up capsizing and some brasilians swimming nearby jumped in to save me. Ah. They helped me and drained my boat and Josh ended up having to tie our boats together and pull me back to the hostel. Lol. So Josh doesn´t want to go kayaking with me again.

We spent NY´s with a couple of hilarious brits, some brasilians and some other sundry from the hostel. Tried some new things, including the brasilian drink called a caipirinha. So good but sooo alcoholic! In fact it´s made of a few crushed limes, lots of sugar and then the whole thing is this sugar cane alcohol which I don´t know how to spell but sounds like ka-sha-sa. Caipirinhas in hand, we went down to the barra da lagoa beach, right outside our hostel! It was cool, or legal as they say here, the vast majority were wearing white and the beach was nicely full of people and many fireworks which went on until well into the next day. I, not being able to party forever, conked at about 5am whilst Josh talked to the bar guy. I awoke at about 10, Josh was nowhere to be seen, though the bar guy was in a bed across the room so I had no idea where he was. But I think he rocked up at about midday after having a bit of an adventure. This adventure would not have occured if he hadn´t sat outside as he was about to follow me in to have ´one last smoke´ lol. The next day he slept and I had a good ol´ chat with my dorm buddies from england for most of the day before sleeping once again. The next two days were full of rain and overcastness. The biggest shame as we were planning on getting a motorbike and zipping round the island. Oh well.
So now we´re in Campo Grande but I want to get outta here asap so we´re leaving tomorrow morning to Corumbá, right on the border to bolivia! The plan is to then get to Cusco, Peru by Wednesday wk where we´ll be meeting a mate from Adelaide for the Inca trail! So fun fun everyone!