Skunked in Buzios

We are having a blast here in Buzios but we have been skunked and have had no wind! We have brought our kites to a number of beaches, including Brava and Rasa, and have met other kiters, but have not had more than 10 knots of wind. We have found more wind at one beach and there was a Brazilian kiter riping it, (I can not spell the name of the beach but it started with an M) but the wind was directly onshore and not safe with lots of people and sharp houses. We are hoping to get wind tomorrow but hear that it might be Saturday before we get anything. We have to leave for Rio on Monday.

Other than the skunkage, we have been meeting many cool people and have been going to lots of cool beaches, bars and restaurants. It is very hot every day (32-36 degrees) and we all have tans or sunburns - some in places where we didnt know we had places :)

Tonight we are going to Fishbone Buzios which is a cool bar on a killer surf beach with DJs playing on the beach with a sand dance floor. They are having a pig roast tonight and all of the beautiful Brazilians seem to hang out there. John and I even ran into one of our clients there from Vancouver yesterday... bizarre. We also ran into some other Canadians we know last night at the Anexo Bar. Tomorrow night we have reservations at Privilege as it was closed on my birthday.

It has been an adventure as most people do not speak English but everybody is friendly and tries to communicate. We have been stranded at a kitesurf school where we could not get a taxi and have had 2 cars break down (one was a dune buggy with a broken gas gauge, the other a piece of shit Fiat that I think we blew the engine in).

We have lots of pictures and video which will get uploaded when we get back and hopefully we get some wind so we can kiteboard but the partying has been very good and we may just go surfing if we get skunked in Buzios again.