This morning we tried to get up early to check out of the albuergue so we could go to the one where our other friends were because it was much much better. So we checked out, kind of felt bad because the owner had been really nice to us and as we left he asked whether we were leaving or going to another hostel. And my friend Lana* and I couldn't lie :(.
Anyway we were asking at the Albergue O Farol where a good place to have breakfast was, since the hostel had a kitchen but we had not food. And she told us that everywhere was closed pretty much because people party till late at night and don't open stuff up till like midday.
They are really nice here in Itacare in general. One of the ladies who works at the hostel who is helping us out a lot says she's from Rio de Janeiro, came here for a vacation and ended up staying here. She says she really likes it but misses the anonimity of Rio because here everyone knows you. Translation equivalent "Here if you get pissed drunk one night and fall on the floor, everyone is going to know about it; but when I was in Rio you could do what you want, go out to the market without dressing up, combing your hari--even without brushing your teeth and sure peopel will be like 'who's that strange girl' but they don't know you so it doesn't matter, but here...that is impossible"
She's really funny. but Itacare in general has been extremely hospitable!
So we went out to look for breakfast, and sure enough, everywhere we passed was closed. After walking for a while we finally found some open places, but Lana and I are particular about food and breakfast. We need our protien AND vitamins, and carbs and...not cake. And then we found this place down there where we're eating. it was Maria's ___ or something Maria. I would strongly recommend it.
And at first it seemed like they also only had cakes because there is a huge bakery section but then they have a menu on the wall which had all the juices, smoothing, fruit cocktails, and eggs, etc. on there.
I love that you never have to worry that fruit you'll get is canned. It's always super fresh and delicious. But I was having an indecisive moment. There were two smoothies (vitamina in Port.) that I was interested in but it would have been perfect if two of the fruits included were switched, so after ordering the one that I had settled on, I asked if I could actually order the same thing but with the fruits that I wanted, and the sweet waitress was like "sure :)" and so I asked her to change it, then I realized they had a fruit cocktail, and I decided I wanted that instead with an egg on wheat bread!
The others also ordered either an egg sandwhich and another ordered a chocolate smoothie with a fruit crêpe. So we were all waiting. And the first thing to come was a mixture of finely chopped fruit with yoghurt and granola on top, and my friend asked "is that the #42? the vitamina?" and she was like "yeah" and we were all like "it doesn't really look like a smoothie but I guess it must be it. she was fine with it.
It was kind of hard to get it all out but we managed, and i ate it because it is one of my favorite fruits. ever.



climb a palm tree I guess.
TIP, if this happens to you swim parallel to the shore!
I just remember that I stood once i could for a while to calm down. But I didn't step all the way out of the water. I actually went back in with the boogie board a few minutes later. I think I might be crazy. In retrospect, dang I'm stubborn. But I just didn't go out that far any more. Thankfully at least right?
Then we did some more photo shooting. Oh poor guide. I bet he didn't know what he was getting into. We were there for like 5/6 hours. We kind of forgot about him actually. He seemed to be doing okay because some of his friends were there, but once we noticed he was getting a little antsy, we're like okay we're done.

He does a lot of landscapes of the place because he's really into nature, but he really likes surrealism too. And it was great. He had some really good like leaves turning into waves and women trees. I dig his style.

Oh by the way there were some really nice guys who were teaching us some more portuguese. When one guy said I spoke portuguese well I said "'brigada" Then he's like [translation equiv.] "no 'obrigado', is to formal it's like shirt-and-tie way of saying it, you say valéu"
For dessert we had all had our eyes on this local gelato place. It was locally pretty popular and they make their ice cream there. Flavors like plum, maracuja, cupuaçú, chocolate mint, vanilla, strawberry, some other fruits but while in Itacaré, we had to have either cacau and chocolate gelato.
We later went to a nearby market to get some food for the next day, take advantage of the kitchen in the hostel and save time at breakfast. I was in charge of the fruits, I got some pineapple, mango, and sandwich making stuff to take advantage of the kitchen and not waste too much time looking for food in the morning because we had scheduled a tour of the Mata Atlantica the next morning.
You can organize a lot of things through the hostel and in this case one of the workers at the hostel did the calling and setting up for the special tour. Special because they usually don't do it on Sundays but we offered to pay more, we just weren't on top of it the day before, they end on Saturday and it would have been cheaper then because it's with a bigger group. but oh well.
Oh it was a good day!
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