Making time for your friends

Black and White Beach - Costa do Sauipe, Brazil, originally uploaded by spiggot123.

Day 5 - Wednesday

After an exhausting day and night of touring, drinking, and dancing, we were definitely ready to kick back on the beach and do some relaxing. We headed down to the beach to take Capoeira classes. Capoeira is a Brazilian dance/martial art. A bunch of bboy moves came from this dance.

After class, we just decided to go off separately and do our own thing. We kind of just needed some time alone, in order to really enjoy the place through our own eyes. But funny enough, we actually ended up doing the same exact thing; We both went out for a jog on the beach, enjoyed the sun, got sunburned, and just sat around doing nothing...all separately.

But here's the best part:

6pm - We met at the room. We look at each other. We looked like lobsters from the sun. Angel turns on the TV. We both lay in bed in front of the TV, and we don't move for the next 6 hours. We laid there, talked, and just watched TV with each other. I'm not sure if it's because we were tired from the sun, or if it's that we really just wanted to do nothing. But honestly...that was one of the best nights of the trip.

I've traveled a lot this year - Spain, Italy, Dominican Republic, US, and now Brazil. But sometimes vacation with friends is a little more than just seeing the world and trying new things together. Sometimes, all it is, is a chance to make time for old friends.

At hour 3 of watching the Tudors, 11pm (at a commercial break, of course), we both turned to each other, smiled, and giggled. We're in Brazil. We've been laying in bed all night. Didn't even eat dinner. And watched TV. And I think it was at that moment that I realized why we became friends in the first place.

Angel and I at Costa do Sauipe, originally uploaded by spiggot123.