Day 3... RIO...

Day 3 RIO....

After our morning buffet breakfast we made plans to go watch the Austrian FIVB men and women do their beach training (next to the court that we are using).... We could see exactly how... the beach volleyball skills should be done.  It had rained all night (which is not unusual for this time of year....) but the mornings are normally clear and no rain.... apparently.... today was not a normal day as it was a little rainy this morning.   None the less we walked to the courts to watch them practice... they were just warming up and peppering... when the sky opened up and started raining again.... 

The Austrian players decided to postpone their practice to later in the day... and we went back to the hotel for another cup of coffee and to wait for the weather to clear

The rain stopped about 11am... and we made our way to the beach... we were going to use the professional court to practice on as the Austrian team was not there yet.  Just as we got the balls out of the ball bag and started to warm up ... the rains came back.  We waited under the small beach umbrella to see if the rain would blow over... but ... it did not.  We decided to go to lunch and then continue with the beach lesson at 2pm.

At 2pm the weather was great for practice, warm, very little wind, but most of all NO RAIN.

We practices about 1 1/2 hours and then the Austrian boys showed up for their practice.  Before they started to practice John asked them if we could have our pictures taken with them... they said yes.... see the photo below.... (we are the short ones)

After practice was free time to go shopping or shower or sleep.

It was too late to late to go to Sugar Loaf today... so that is our sightseeing target for tomorrow after our morning practice.