When Ellen was here last semester, she met a girl named Marcia who is about our age, Brazilian, and speaks fluent English. We became friends with her (on Facebook, of course, this is the 21st century) and then finally got to meet her in person yesterday. She came over to our villa and then we hopped on a bus to Lapa. In one trip we were able to see the Arcos da Lapa (the Arches of Lapa) and the Escadarias da Lapa (stairs of Lapa). I wanted to see the arches so badly and kind of freaked out a little when we saw them. I think they are gorgeous, I could have taken pictures of them all day.
We walked down a couple of back streets that were so lively and filled with so many people and little bars before coming to the stairs. Which are also gorgeous. I don't know what I was expecting, but these steps just appeared. We were just wandering along down the street and then all of a sudden, there they were!
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| Me hanging out on the stairs. |
This man, Selaron, is from Chile and decided to design these stairs. People from all over the world sent him different tiles with all sorts of pictures on them and then he placed them together in a giant mosaic staircase. They were breath-taking. I could not even believe how amazing and intricate they were.
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| This was literally twenty feet off the ground. Amazing. |
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| At the stairs in Lapaaa! |
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| All of us with the man who designed the stairs! |
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| Marcia and I acting Brazilian. |
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| Oh yeah, Flat Stanley came too. |
I enjoy reading about your adventures so much.
ReplyDeleteSome of the thing you are seeing or telling me about is the same type of things I check out on my trips. sounds like things are going well
Love you. Grandma K