Florianopolis

After a 6 hour bus journey to Sao Paulo, and then an 11 hour night bus we arrived in Florainopolis very tired and in need of a place to stay. But it took us about 4 hours of trekking with our bags in the heat of teh day to finally realise where we needed to get to!! Shoulder and backs killing us! A lovely couple welcomed us to their quiet hostel, where we met up with another friend from mellow yellow.

After a well needed kip on the beach we had a lovely BBQ and drinks at the hostel. The next day the sun finally came out so we the morning on the beach and went to the town for the afternoon for some lunch.

The day after we went sand boarding.... it was so much fun. We started off on the stand up boards but after a few too many falls and eating a ton of sand we decided to try out the bum boards..... we were hilarious to watch. There is a video of us on facebook, for those of you that can get on to it, but to fill in for those who cant get on it - we are sand boarding from one of the biggest peaks and ended up with kim loosing control and slamming into the back of jenny.... jenny ended up flipping over, getting her leg stuck in the board and kim ended up in histerics!!!! The boys were a bit better than us as they are used to surfing but they still had a few funny tumbles on the way down.

Supposed to leave on friday night.... but ended up missing the bus... thanks to our fellow travel buddies!!! But it didnt turn out to be all bad as ended up staying in a nice hotel in the centre of florianopolis. We didnt want to travel back to our hostel as it was too far and this hotel worked out to be cheaper than the hostels in the centre! Lucky us. We forgot what it was like to be some where so clean.... we had a sea view, a lovely bathroom, toilet paper that was folded into a point at the end.... couldnt believe it! That night we decided to go out for dinner and hit a couple of clubs where we danced the night away!

The next day we hired a car out and went to the south of the island, it was really nice just to travel round and stop where you wanted to. Finally on our last day we just spent a bit of time in town then got on our night bus to go to the iguassu falls.