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  Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sunday, August 24, 2008

And so it ends...... But what a place for that to be, in Rio de Janeiro.

As we mentioned in the last blog, we booked a great hotel to spend the last five days of our year long trip pretending we were on holiday. I guess actually we ARE on holiday! It´s just sometimes travelling can seem a little far removed from holidays and nice things! Not that we regret any of it.

Rio is a very pretty city with green rainforest covered hills framing the many bays. The icons of Sugar Loaf mountain and Christ the Redeemer statue look awesome when bathed in the tropical sunlight. Our hotel is on Ave. Atlantica which runs along Copacabana beach. We have these amazing views of the beach and Sugar Loaf mountain and the misty hills from our hotel room window and it looks good!

We´ve visited the Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugar Loaf mountain, we´ve sunned ourselves on the beach, drunk coconut water from fresh coconuts, we´ve strolled along the promenade and enjoyed the hotel pool and steam room. There are many other things you can do in Rio, but we decided that we mostly wanted to relax for the time here so we have been happy to do just that.

It´s slightly surreal to think that ´´this is it´´ in terms of finishing travelling and returning home. We´ve had an awesome time away. That´s an understatement because to sum up all the experiences we´ve had is almost too difficult. A year at home brings many challenges, changes, highs and lows, and a year travelling the world brings all that too, it just seems more concentrated because you feel the affects more when you´re not in the familiar surroundings of home.

We have been blessed to have had so many friends along the way, old and new, and we just want to say thanks again to everyone who had us to stay, fed us, and acted as tour guides! It has also been amazing to feel such protection and provision from God throughout the year, we have felt on many occasions answers to our own prayers and know that lots of other people have been praying for us too.

We do plan to do blog entry from home and our ´´re-entry´´ (as Sarah calls it) into life in England which will undoubtedly have a few top 10 lists or something like that from our year around the world.

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At the top of Sugar Loaf	Christ the Redeemer	Copacabana Beach	Copacabana Beach #2
Copacabana Beach at night	Sarah overlooking Rio from Corcovado	Sugar Loaf Mountain and the bay	Tom overlooking Rio and Sugar Loaf
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