Dunes in Brasil!!

Today we had the opportunity to explore the beaches of Natal and to see why they are so famous! The beach we went to was beautiful, and the best part is that you could walk out really far from the shore and the water didn't get deep very quickly. The waves were perfect for surfing, but seeing as we didn't have any surf boards everyone decided to body surf instead. When I say "try and body surf" I really mean that we tried to jump in the waves and they smashed us time and again. It was great :) Johnny, a member of our group, took a dive into the water a liiiiiiiiiiiittle early and face planted pretty bad. He laughs about it but it still makes me cringe a little haha, judge for yourself!

We spent a while on the beach because we were having a lot of fun, then Vanessa set up a group dune buggy trip. It is a weird thought but there are TONS of dunes here and they have these sweet buggies for taking people out in. We all piled in and went for the ride. I expected us to take a leisurely ride down the beach or something, but little did I expect we were soon flying through dunes and going all over the place. I decided to sit up on top and a few times I'm surprised I didn't get launched out! They stopped part way through in a small area where rain gathers and it just has this nice lake where we got to cool off. We then continued on and saw a really beautiful lake and then finished at the top of a dune where there were people selling stuff. Cindy and I had some coconut water right out of the coconut and turned to see CAMELS.

Yeah, is this not the most random place to see a camel? This group of people were selling 10 minute rides on camels and Cindy and I really wanted to go, but the price was way high for such a short ride so we decided not to. The place had zero business so you'd think they'd get the pic and bring the price down a bit, but nope. Anyways, it was so fun seeing camels after a crazy fun dune ride.

Now, the day was awesome (other than me frying again) and Vanessa just decided to top it off with rodizio de pizza. I cannot tell you how AWESOME pizza is in Brasil! They had 25 flavors of pizza and a lot of different pastas, and if you've ever been to Tucanos then imagine them bringing pizza around to your table instead of meat. All you can eat! Heaven. Period. Oh, and chocolate pizza.... mmm.....

Camel!!

 This was our buggy. We had the crazy guy, it was awesome!

 Cindy is kissing a whale, can you see it? ;)

That's heaven right there