We woke up pretty late- went to 'bed' at 8am. we met up with Gabriel and Christine, as well as Odrigo, Gabriel's friend. We went to a Bloco in Impemena again, not as fun as the day before, but better company. There I tried some type of red liquid with Chastasa?? in a really long tube- it tasted pretty bad though. We then walked 3 miles (we thought it was only a mile!) to meet up with Nora's mother's co-wokers' husband for dinner, his name is Len. He's a nice guy, and we had a great dinner ( I had Parisian chicken with fruit salad for dessert. Our 1st dinner experience. Yum! He told us of his time in the Sombodromo, and suggested we should try going. So we made our plan to scalp tickets later that night. It worked! We went to the gates around 11;00pm, it started at 9pm, and didnt' end till 5:30am. It was pretty shady business, but with the help of Meliana (our newly acquired friend after she asked what time it was, and was waiting for a friend) we got the tickets at midnight for 50 reis (bout 28 USD)! IT WAS INCREDIBLE! The energy in the Sombodromo was excellent, you couldn't help but dance and sing along with the different schools performing. We ended up seeing 3 schools, and the ending of another. 6 performed that night. And 12 schools performed total. apparently, there are over 2,000 categories that the schools compete 4 points, and Tijuca was the final winner- this wasn't one of the schools we saw. It was totally worth it to go! Again, we got back really late, and stayed up for sunset at Copa. No Marcos this time, but we met a Columbian, and a Peruvian man that apparently danced for one of the schools.
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