Out on the town with Ricardo again

26.02.2016

Ricardo woke up really early in the morning and I couldn't get back to sleep, so we just left for our adventure of the day. We went to see his German dancing friends having a breakfast together. Then, we went to buy some Asian pears from a Japanese buddhist temple.

After all the errands were done, we went to Opera de Arames, a theatre built out of pipes and wires. It was pretty nice.

From there, we drove over to Park Tangui, where we had some popcorn and walked around until we found the Ukranian memorial, a reproduction of a historical church with exhibits of pysanky.

The last two stops on my agenda were to go to Santa Felicidade, the Italian part of town and Torre Panoramico. In between those two places, we danced with Ricardo's German folk dance group.

In Santa Felicidade, I told Ricardo to choose a place, because I had no idea what would be good, it just had to be Italian. I was laughing my face off because there were so many cheesy things, like a statue of a huge bottle of wine and giant angels, right in the middle of the street. It was amazing. Ricardo said "Oh it's not like Italy?" No, not at all, honey.

While the ambience was quite different, the food was amazing. We stopped in at a buffet type place, where they came around to your table with various delicious things. I bought a bottle of wine that was way too big, and couldn't even drink it all.

Ricardo had dance practice so I joined in on a few dances, they really had a lot of fun doing that for hours at a time, it was infectious. I can't believe I forgot how to polka after all those years.

We still weren't tired, so we went to Torre Panoramico at the top of the communications tower at the top of the tallest hill in Curitiba. Ricardo slept in the car while I looked around at the top.

Then, we came home and I fell right asleep. I didn't wake up until 5:30 a.m., 11 hours after I went to bed. Phew.

Opera de arame