Chapter 6 - Rio De Janeiro - Part 1

Life In Chile

Chapter 6 – Rio De Janeiro - Part 1
(March 2014)

6 Months to go

So I just want to start by saying this was the BEST little holiday EVER!!! I am not and will not ever do it justice so I am just going to TRY and keep it short and sweet with the writing (this was a lie! I wrote this at first and now I have decided to put the days as separate posts as it was too long and boring altogether haha!) and just have lots of photos : ) WAHOO!!  Josh and I originally were only meant to be in Rio De Janeiro for 3 days but you will see at the end of this post why it was extended to 4 haha!! Enjoy people x

Day 1

We arrived at the Rio de Janeiro airport around 9am. We had to catch 2 flights, 1 that went to São Paulo where we had a 5/6-hour layover but this is where we had to have our ‘sleep’ to give us energy for a LONG day. This definitely didn’t happen for me :S. We then went from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. As we stepped off the plan we were welcomed by 34 degrees, I’ve never been so hot!!! We arrived at our hotel and checked in early, unpacked and then went back downstairs to book us onto a tour.

Representing Kaba :) You're welcome Dad :)

 Here is what the tour included:

1.    Maracaná Stadium- World Cup Stadium baby.  This is where the final will be played :) 

2.     Cathedral- Now from the outside this place looked manky to me and it looked like it came out of an Indiana Jones movie but then we walked inside….I will let the pictures speak for themselves!!

3.    Christ The Redeemer- One of the many amazing wonders of the World. We were so excited to be here after seeing tv shows, photos, videos, comments about this statue we just couldn’t believe that we were here/there standing in front of him. As you can see everyone taking photos had at least 1 person photo bombing that photo haha! It was packed to say the least, there are about half the people full on lying down on the floor to get a good photo of the statue it is mental! BUT SO WORTH IT!!!!!

4.    Sugar Loaf Mountain- I just want to start and say this is not for the faint-hearted haha! To reach Sugar Loaf you have two trips, one cable car takes you to another mountain and then the next cable car takes you to Sugar Loaf but when you get into that cable car you will not think you will ever make it to the mountain as it looks like the cord/rope/death trap what ever you would like to call it will snap, SO SCARY! I just kept my head down in both cable cars :) I am such a wimp! But WOW, once you arrive onto Sugar Loaf mountain and look out at the view you will completely forget about the ordeal you have just gone through and have to go through again on the way down. By the time we reached the top it was dark but it didn’t ruin the view at all, it was just so beautiful to look out and see all these shining lights across Rio especially Christ The Redeemer! That was glowing like no other :) Such a beautiful view!

Our Tour Guide :)

We arrived back to our hotel after a LONG day and we couldn’t be bothered to find a restaurant as we were so tired that we just went and got a casual Maccy D’s, so exotic haha! We both ordered CBO’s and shared a TRIPLE cheeseburger :).

To Be Continued

Chapter 5 - Love Is In The Air

Life In Chile

Chapter 5 – Love Is In The Air
(February 2014)

7 Months to go

I hope everyone had an amazing Valentines and got spoilt rotten and ate tons of yummy choccies :)

I am not really a Valentines Day lover; due to thinking everyday should be Valentines Day!! Hint hint Josh….. I think I should get flowers everyday ;) haha, just kidding but not!! :)

But, this year I really wanted to make a cute effort for Josh. So, Pinterest 1: 0 Jenna! I decided for the run up to valentines Josh would be able to open an envelope every day. Inside the envelope included a piece of paper with a different valentines theme/plan for each day. It is very embarrassing to show you all my efforts/craftiness, due to living in a country where you don’t understand the language; I decided to use anything and everything I could find in our apartment.

It’s the thought that counts right!!

Here are a few things that I included in the envelopes

  3^rd February- Games Night

  7^th February- Spa Night

  8^th February- Breakfast In Bed 
(Pinterest 2- 0 Jenna)

Definitely looked nothing like the Pinterest one!!!! But still way yummy!

 9^th February- PJ Party

 

Having way too much fun with the fan!

10^th February- Chocolate fondue

I’m not going to lie it worked out so well! I was happy, Josh was happy! Happy Valentines to us both :)

So for my present from Josh, as some of you may have seen on Instagram, I was left with a cheeky sentence in my Valentines card, which read

To put you all out of your misery my wonderful Hubby had booked for us to go for a romantic day at a beautiful beach. So, we headed to the bus station (may I add we didn’t have enough time to go to a romantic restaurant so we had a nice romantic meal at Maccy D’s, Classy we know :)) to catch the bus to Viña del Mar, which is around 1 Hour and 45 minutes away. Once arriving it was just before midnight so we headed straight to our hotel, checked in and got taken up to our room. I am apologising to you in advance Josh for telling people but I have to :) my beautiful Joshy had gone to so much effort to surprise me with this (I honestly did not have a clue! I ALWAYS ruin surprises!) but he didn’t realise that instead of booking a double bed he had booked us 2 (double) single beds haha!! Lets just say I had tears strolling down my face watching his face drop, bless him!!

So, anyway we had a good sleep ready for our beach day :)

Ready to Go!!

<3 Our Romantic Meal <3

Spot of Body building ;)

Trying out a new pose after watching the body builders :)

Packed.com!!! Luckily we were on the other EMPTY side!

Yummy Churros!

I am so grateful to have Josh in my life and for the special things that he does for me and I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with him and then some!!

Happy Valentines to you all!

Chapter 4 – Soaring Over Mendoza

Life In Chile

Chapter 4 – Soaring Over Mendoza 
(January 2014)

8 Months to go

For anybody reading this post that know me (which hopefully is everybody :S) knows that I am the biggest scaredy cat ever! I HATE heights, big time!!!

So whilst researching for things to do for our weekend away in Mendoza, Argentina, I came across Paragliding.

par·a·glid·ing

ˈparəˌglīdiNG/

noun

noun: paragliding

1. 
a sport in which a wide canopy resembling a parachute is attached to a person's body by a harness in order to allow them to glide through the air after jumping from or being lifted to a height.

My description of Paragliding from watching YouTube videos was to be strapped to some random stranger (putting my life in his hands!) and then having to run and JUMP off a mountain!!!!

Let me just say once Josh had texted me to say he had booked paragliding I definitely questioned why I suggested this OUTLOUD! But, I can’t back out now!

The day had finally arrived and weirdly I wasn’t really that nervous, well until we started to drive up the mountain we were jumping off. I’m not even kidding I was freaking out in the car big time but not because of what was just about to happen to me but what was happening to me now!! The roads were so narrow and it was like if the driver made one slight wrong movement we were going to fall to our deaths very quickly. Luckily we finally made it to the top of the mountain and I guess due to the stress of that journey I wasn’t scared one bit!!

I would prefer to jump of this mountain than have to drive back down it!!

So once we got strapped together with our jumpers, it was time to JUMP!! It was so windy that Josh didn’t even get to see me take off as we just flew away so quickly!!

But, WOW this was the BEST idea I have EVER had!!!

It was the most incredible feeling, just flying through the air and being able to see over all of Mendoza. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone; my fear of heights had disappeared for some reason and I LOVED IT!! I loved being able to see Josh flying near me and being able to enjoy this amazing experience together!

I love our New Year resolution of making changes and taking risks!!!

 

I LOVE 2014