Rio Carnival at Sambadrome

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February 21st 2012

Published: February 21st 2012

<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Day 130 Saturday 18th February Today we are going to Ipanema Beach to check out all the beautiful people and the better shopping area. Once again we took the Metro but this time we headed south to what is the end of the line for the metro in Rio. People everywhere have feathers and masks and beer and all seem to be heading to th... Read Full Entry

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Porta da Pedra

Animal float

Porta da Pedra

Carring the school flag

Hindu theme float

Another diva

Golden naked woman

Slavery ship

African themed float

Serpent Float

Dancers

Tribal dancers

More tribal dancers

Cheetah Float

View down the Sambadrome

Vila Isabel

View of the end of the parade

Vila Isabel

Shelley at 6.45am in the morning

Vila Isabel

Scott at 6.45am in the morning

Vila Isabel

The final Float

Ipanema Beach

The sea of umbrellas

Ipanema Beach

The girl from Ipanema Beach hiding under the umbrellas

22nd February 2012

margaret
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OMG
"WOW" how bloody wonderful is that, glad to see you got into the spirit Shelly, so jealous, glad for you both luv me xx

23rd February 2012

Niki
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Wow!
Any room in your luggage? The Inner West does not compare! I've resolved to switch from reading the newspapers on the weekends to your blog, I canna keep up and confess to skipping ahead as I marvel over your photos. Ahh...

27th February 2012

traudy glasencnik
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable!!!! Just amazingly fantastical. Great photo's Shelly. I just cant get over the work that goes into it all, its hard to imagine let alone create. God I so want to see it now. what a great pozie you had and you both have this glowing look about you at 6.45am. Nice mask Scotty, umm hmmmm, not such a boring fart afterall. Oh, thankyou so much for going to Sth America, dealing with all its ups and downs and delivering us with such amazing blogs and photo's, need I say more. Enjoy!!!! xxx

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