Waking up at 6:30 a.m., Samii went to go force Ryan out of his bed. After a drowsily breakfast, we headed off to Sugar Loaf Mountain to climb. Meredith wasn’t so keen on climbing, as she didn’t want to hurt her feet, but Anna convinced her to. At 7:30 a.m., we met our tour guide, Alonzo, who told us about the mountain. Apparently, the mountain is known as Pao de Acucar, or Sugar Loaf, and was named due to the resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar. With 8 o’clock looming ahead of us, we started our climb up the mountain. Well, not really climb. Taking the cable car up the mountain, we got to see all of Rio before our eyes. On the other side of the city was the statue of Christ the Redeemer, keeping his arms open and it almost seemed like the statue stared at us. The statue stood on top of the Corcovado Mountain and soars thirty-eight meters high above the city. In Portuguese it is known as Christo Redentor and is a famous symbol for Brazil. Alonzo told us more facts about Sugar Loaf Mountain, including that it is 1,299 feet high! When we reached the summit, Wini and Meredith both freaked out, Anna took deep breaths, and Ryan and Samii just stared in amazement at the sight. We continued to stare around the city and learned more about the mountain until the tour ended at 12. Since the tour ended, we all decided to go shopping and take home some souvenirs from our trip. We took a short cab ride to the Barrashopping mall located near Parque Marapendi beach. The mall had five hundred and seventy-seven stores and is 120,000 meters in size. Samii went to a store called Ferni, where she bought a shiny, magenta purse. Meredith and Anna went into a Brazilian store, in which they bought them a shirt that had the Brazilian colors on it. Then we all went to the food court and ate the familiar Burger King for lunch.
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