Dominique Vallée

22.08.2008 | comments [0]

So after some summer shredding up in Whistler I left to go visit the family out in Montreal like I do every year. It was great family times, but the weather was so bad. Raining every day and we were even getting water cyclones in the St-Laurence river. Never seen before, it was quite a sight. So after lots of card playing and long dinners with all of my family I took-off to visit some friends in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio is one of the most beautiful, colorful, diverse city's in the world. It's crazy, you have the mountains in the middle of the city that reach down to the ocean with the lagoon in the middle of down-town. Rich parts and the flavelas mixed in all together almost with the beaches and hills with the botanical garden in the middle. Oh, and the itsy-bitsy-bikiny......ya, everybody wears those, but all the women seems to have a really nice but. Everybody is super active and of course it's plastic surgery heaven there. So we went the first week-end to Buzios, which is considered the St-Tropez of Brazil where all the rich and famous go and vacation on the beach. It's really cute romantic place with all the beaches and restaurants but the water is a few degrees colder then Rio and it makes such a difference when you forget to bring your shorty wet-suit from home. I was freezing with blue lips after about an hour of surf. But anyways, it was I think one of the best trips of my life overall and I would recommend everybody to go. I wouldn't tell somebody to go there for a surf trip, but the surf is fun and there's beach-brakes every where. There is just so much to do. Now I'm back home and getting ready to go to school early September for 3 intense months. I'm working at the Farmer's Market in Whistler on Sunday selling berries with friends. I hope the rain will stop soon. Summers are so short here you can almost feel the snow coming in already since it gets so cold at night. talk to you soon. ciao dom