Rio Weekend

About a week before Christmas the kids, my sister Marina, and I spent a weekend in Rio. We had a greally great time! The girls contributed one of their piggy banks towards the trip and my grandparents were kind enough to lend us their apartment in Ipanema, which is a couple of blocks from the beach. We were going to go to the Cristo or the Sugar Loaf one of the days, but the kids preferred to play at the beach all day for as long as we stayed there, come rain or come shine. So that's what we did! :)

 

Seeing the Christmas tree at the Rodrigo de Freitas lake: