We stayed with Ronaldo, who stayed in Marthas house in the Netherlands in 2011. He lives in Gravatai, which is about half an hour from Porto Alegre. We slept in the house of his girlfriends family and were treated like princesses. Her mum made awesome food, we weren´t allowed to help with anything and the first evening  Ronaldo, Leticia (his girlfriend) and some of their friends took us to this "Christmas "- city, which is a very popular place to go to in the south of Brasil. It was already way after Christmas but for the first time this Christmas feeling you normally have ( in Germany) came up. The whole city was lightened up with christmas decoration, you could hear christmas music out of every store and there was even a choir singing, of course, christmas songs.
One new experience Martha and me had, was eating chicken heart!! If think about it know, I think its really gross...but in reality it tasted just like some kind of meat ;) I wouldn´t eat it again though. Jajaja

New Years Eve we were invited to celebrate with friends of Ronaldo and Leticia. In general we had fun and enjoyed celebrating the New Year in Brasil with these lovely people, but I´m totally ready to celebrate 2013 with my family and friends ;)

The brasilians do have some weird but interesting New Years traditions though. They say you should eat lots of lentil soup, seven grapes and jump over seven waves to be lucky and get rich that year. Of course I did all three things...lets see how it works out. Logically I will get home with no money left but you never know what happens! HAHA

The day after New Years, Ronaldo and Leticia showed us the center of Porto Alegre. As you can see on the picture its really green. In times it rains a lot but that didn´t bother us. No big news from two girls coming from the Netherlands and Germany...

After leaving Gravatai, we went north and stoped in Florianapolis for one day. It´s know for having some of the most beautiful beaches in Brasil, which really means something!!! Maybe you can´t tell from the picture but it really was one of the most beautiful beaches we had been to in Brasil.

Hasta el proximo "post"

Un abrazo

and I move on...

Very short post about our way from BsAs to Porto Alegre (Brasil):

We took a "Buquebus", thats the name of the ferry that crosses the river, to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. We got there in the afternoon and had the whole day to see the city and chill at the beach, cause our couchsurfer had to work until 8pm...
In the end we missed the last bus to his house because we forgot about the time difference...stupid, I know :D From that moment everything totally got out of control and we ended up taking the last bus to Montevideo and sleep there in the terminal! At least we were lucky that the terminal didn't close over night^^
A little tired and sore from sleeping or trying to sleep on the seats in the terminal, we headed to the beach of Montevideo. A really nice and quiet beach...at least in the morning ;)
In the afternoon we walked through the city and had a cafe with a german tourist we met. He identified us as germans when he saw my "Deuter"-backpack :D
In the evening we had bought a bus ticket over night to Porto Alegre, where one of Marthas friends lived, with which we wanted to stay for a few days.

Yap, thats how we got there!

Hasta luego