Salvador

I loved Salvador.  It was SO pretty.  It's also one of the most dangerous cities in the world.  Hey, you win some, you lose some...right? :)

I have so many beautiful pictures, but it takes forever to upload (and I doubt anyone really wants to see ALL the pictures I've taken) but here are some of my favorite city/landscapes, and some of the churches and sites we visited.

 Isn't that a spectacular view??

Statue of Christ.  

Salvador means Savior in English, and I love how many churches and statues of Christ they had around the city. 

 Me and Tawnya :)

(She's been my roommate since we left Recife, and it has been so fun!  I think I get a better workout from how much we laugh together than any amount of time I've spent in the gym...)

 Me, Tawnya, and Johnny walking on the beach

 Farrol da Barra

This was the first fort in Brazil, and is also a lighthouse

 Me and Tawnya being cute.  And excited.  And showing off our cute matching braids.

 us putting one foot in the door of the lighthouse (haha Tawnya)

 Me and Shawndeen on top of the fort

View of/from the top of the lighthouse

 Then Brady and I climbed out onto this pier 

 Some sort of government building.  I don't remember exactly what it is...  But I really liked this picture of it :)

 We heard this was "the best ice cream in Salvador", so of course we had to try it.
I believe it!

 Inside a museum with a cute lady who was dressed up in traditional Bahian clothing

 We saw so many cool churches, I don't actually remember all the details or which one was which.  But they were so incredible!  I love how intricately decorated they all are.

This church was wall-to-wall with gold.  The pictures (no flash) just don't even begin to do it justice.

 Another cool church.

We even got to attend mass!

It was quite the experience.  This guy is carrying in a sacrifice/ donation?  I don't know what exactly they were calling it.  But they had a ton of people carrying stuff in!  Oh, I also got some sweet videos of people singing and clapping, but they take too long to upload...  Keep your fingers crossed/remind me, and maybe I'll post them when I go home. :)

And TOTALLY irrelevant (and almost un-cultured compared to everything else we saw that day...), but for the "Tongan clan" especially:

I found the coconut wireless!!

Haha.  that's all I could think of when I saw those phone booths decorated like coconuts.  Who knew they existed, huh?

We should invest in a phone booth like that.

Just sayin'...