Honey-Versary

When Fer and I were married in April 2011 we knew our life and schedule was going to be too busy to take a honeymoon until we were settled here in Argentina. Last month we were able to spend a beautiful week+ in Brazil celebrating our first year of marriage. Here are some photos from our time in Rio and Buzios...
At a beach-side bar our first day in Rio. I am a little foggy-looking from the awful sinus infection and fever that I was dealing with the first few days. Being super sick is a great way to start to a honeymoon! ;)

View from our table

 The landscape of Rio is impressive. Also impressive are the immense number of favelas (shanty-towns) on all the hills such as this one:

 Ipanema beach

 My hubby :)

 A look out point on our way up to Cristo Redentor.

Thankfully no clouds at this point of the tour...

Because this is about all you could see at the top:

Fer enjoying coconut water after we biked around the lagoon

View of Leme/Copacabana a couple of blocks from where we were staying

Some monkeys/lemurs (??) on our hike to the top of the military base at the tip of Leme.

View of Copacabana from the top

For the second part of our trip we stayed in Buzios, a couple of hours north of Rio.
This was the beautiful view from our suite:

Looking the other direction:

During a boat cruise that we took to various beaches around Buzios (there are ~16 beaches in total in Buzios)

We rented a boogie to get around the area and to explore the different beaches.
Here is Fer with our sweet "Babies R Us" boogie ;)

Beautiful view of the sunset from our balcony

One of my favorite spots to relax

The freshly grilled shrimp on the beach was AMAZING!

Celebrating our anniversary on our way back to Buenos Aires. Fer, I love you more and more each day!

Punta del Este

The same day I arrived from the States in the morning I caught another flight that night to Punta del Este to meet Fer and the kids for a few days on the beach in Uruguay.  Every day the weather was beautiful and sunny, perfect for lounging on the beach, taking walks and relaxing. There was a wonderful fish market nearby so Fer and I made fish or seafood every single day- much to the kids' chagrin :)

Close to Punta del Este is Casa Pueblo, which was the home of artist Carlos Paéz Vilaró and is now a museum and boutique hotel. An interesting fact about Carlos Paéz Vilaró is that he is the father of one of the survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571- remember the movie "Alive" about the Uruguayan rugby team? His son was one of the rugby players in the crash.
The view from Casa Pueblo is gorgeous and perfect for sunset watching so we went one evening to check it out...

 Sofi and Martin weren't as excited about it as Fer and I were :)

 It felt like a house in a Dr Seuss book

 One day we drove along the coast to check out some different towns and beaches. Fer secretly took pictures of Martin and Sofi playing in the cold water:

 Martin and I checking out an adorable old car. It didn't even have doors!

After a 5+ hour flight delay (I vowed to never fly Pluna again!) we made it back to Buenos Aires and were welcomed by Fer's parents who stayed with us a few days on their way back from Washington DC.