A quick post as we spent most of the day traveling…

We got a little R&R in the morning

There was a lovely beach bar in Abraão (with really cool wooden chairs) where we sat waiting for our boat. The empty bar next to it, with the plastic chairs, may want to consider an investment… in chairs!

Eli took it to another level with his sand writings… a 30 foot long piece (which read… ‘Brazil June 18 2014 Elias !! Good Cool Amazon Eli’)

We took the boat back to the mainland (at Conceição de Jacareí)

Eli joined some Brazilian kids who were playing football on the beach

And then another game in the village square

After this we journeyed back to Rio in very heavy traffic, it was night-time by the time we got home. En route we watched Spain go out of the World Cup to Chile, which was a pretty astonishing turn of events.

Back at home we found waiting for us… our last set of World Cup tickets!

These had arrive via a pretty circuitous route from Switzerland, and basically we didn’t think they’d ever get to us.

After this, and what looked like a pretty boring game on telly between Croatia and Cameroon, we had ourselves an early night.