CITY OF SAINT PAULSao Paulo, Brasil. Largest city in Brasil, the Americas and around the Southern Hemisphere, considered an Alpha Global City, and is the 6th largest city on the PLANET with a population exceeding 29 million people between the Metro and urbans areas!!!!!!! Wow is right. I LOVED IT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know what else to say about it other than "wow".
The 2.5 days that I was there was a blur...no sleep...millions of people, millions of things to do....hundreds of dollars to spend. I want more of it. The stimulation I got from being there is undoubtingly comparable to that of a drug addict trying to get another fix. Don't get me wrong, love the beach town vibe of Floripa...but right now, I want to be where all the action is going on. And yeah, it was polluted...I may even describe it was down right dirty, but it was amazing. Talk about urban, city beauty at its peak. SOOO much culture. Makes Memphis look....small. Very small. Like a safe, quaint town in the heart of the American south. hmmm. Definately opened my eyes up. Even having been in NYC, didn't make me feel like that. Again. Wow.
Thursday night was the beginning of the 12 hour bus ride to the city from Floripa. Not bad actually. More comfortable than the flight from Dallas to Sao Paulo. Then once we got there....it was vai, vai, vai...go, go, go!!!! We went shopping in market vender type places and even went to an oriental part of the city. Did I spend alot of money???....well, yeah. Think we went out for Pizza that night...4 queijos e pepperoni...oh and chocolate com bananas :) drizzle a little extra virgin olive oil and red pepper flakes.....oh god. yum. Kind of an early, sort of chill night. Dom and I wanted to be rested enough for Crossfit Brasil in the morning!!!!
Saturday morning. I'm the first up. As usual. And actually didn't even have to wake Dom up!! Which I had heard earlier would be the biggest pain in the ass. Nope. Maybe she was just as excited/nervous to go to the gym as I was. It was the same kind of nervous I get when I go to Crossfit Memphis. We all talk about it. I've been with Crossfit Memphis for 3 years and I still get that feeling before doing an insane W.O.D. I'm glad she went and did that with me. It was kind of a great adventure trying to get there too...which I'm always all about. Its crazy how much alike Dom and I are, haha. As far as being very assertive and knowing what we want and not asking questions, just doing what we want. She's a mess, too. Almost left the address and directions to the gym...classic Vanessa move. Anyway, we get to the bus stop and while we are waiting for the one we needed to get on we start runnin' our mouths and miss it....ummm....what do we do now? TAKE OFF RUNNING THE FASTEST YOUR BODY CAN HANDLE AFTER THE BUS IN THE MIDDLE OF A VERY OPEN, VERY CROWDED, MAIN STREET IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST CITIES IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!! yep. That was 100% Dom's idea. I liked it. I was right behind her. Until my leggings (yes, I wore leggings as workout pants...I'm becoming very Brasillian) started to fall. Good warmup but unsuccessful. I could tell Dom was thinking very intently about what we could do next...I know because I do the same thing...usually in silence too, haha. So this girl, sees a cab stopped at a red light (keep in mind the street is 5 or 6 lanes deep...and the cab was 3 lanes in accompanied by a huge city bus 2 lanes in) proceeds to walk to the cab, then into the cab...I kind of follow her, not really knowing what she was doing or what I should do until I looked up and realized that I was standing directly in front of the city bus. Not a good idea. Especially in Brasil. Especially considering that pedestrians DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!!!! So I got in the cab. and we got to the gym 20 minutes early :) perfecto! Good day. Love staring off my day with a killer crossfit workout!
So after the workout, we grabbed a little snack and headed back to the apartment. The bus ride was interesting. You'd think I'd hadn't been riding on a city bus all summer. I was struggling. I had to stand in front of a creeper. who was starting. probably at the fact that I was just wearing leggings for pants. maybe I was just iffy about the tights as pants in general. Then it was shopping for a SET for the night. Which I found :) and the hottest shoes ever made on the planet!!!! Thanks Zara :)
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