Day 4 ... RIO

Today is Day 4 in Rio...
A beautiful day of sunny skys await us this morning, much different than yesterday.   We have practice today at 11am, then we are going to Sugar Loaf Mountan.  We are all excited to see it and take the cable car up to the top.

For practice today Wellington had us jumping and hitting and placing the ball.  We hit line, cross court, chipped short, cross court and then hit for power.   All in all we jumped over 100 times and took time at the end of practice to stretch out.

We got cleaned up and went to Sugar Loaf something we were all looking forward to.  
Suprisingly, Sugar Loaf was only a 5 minute taxi ride away from our hotel.  Today was Wednesday which meant we did not have anyone in line to buy the tickets and we were quickly on our way up on the cable car.  

It was exciting and scary all at the same time and the cable car moved pretty quickly. 

We landed on the first rock which seemed really high and began to take photos of the bay the boats and the city.  As we made our way around the rock we quickly saw that there was a even HIGHER rock ahead of us.  We got into line for the next gondola ride to the top.

From the top of the highest rock we could see Copacabana, the Bay, Nitroi across the bay and we looked down onto the airport runway and could see planes taking off heading

right toward the rock we were on and then (semingly) at the last minute they would bank to the left and avoid us.

We saw a crystal clear view of all of RIO... and as we thought we were high on Sugar Loaf we looked up to the sky and could see Corcovado off in the distance... WAY UP IN THE AIR.... We will be going there tomorrow.

We took our time on the lower rock and had a bowl of Acai and some french fries and just hung out for a while.... took in the view and watched the monkies tease the tourists.

It was a great day...... 

Tomorrow Volleyball Practice and Corcovado ...