We’re catching up quick now…

We finally got to go all the way up to Sugarloaf Mountain. (There are those SWEET LINKS again! You’re going to be so smart about Brasil!) We had to take a cablecar to the first peak, and then a second cablecar to the top.

It was crazy steep all the way around, but a beautiful peak and lots of fun wildlife up there. You could even see all the way out to Christ Redeemer.

There were some beautiful birds up top, and even some Marmosets that live up there!
It was a busy day though, and we had to make it to Olympic Men’s Diving before we went to Athletics later in the day.

Men’s Diving was probably one of the most fun events to watch, because we were in the running for gold and because there was some serious competition. Sets run pretty consistently so you don’t get very bored, and it’s overall a great experience unless someone can’t control their kid and they kick you in the head every-timeeverytime the crowd cheers.

There were all different kinds of dives.

The judges looked comical in their rain covered booths.

And then we had to be off to Athletics!

Athletics was like hanging out with your best friend in Elementary school that had ADD but his parents never remembered to give him his Ritalin. At one point, we had a relay race going on and in between laps on both sides there was javelin throwing and high jump going on. I was really hoping to see a High Jumper get stampeded or a Javelin thrower miss and accidentally hit someone on the track but apparently these people are fairly good at what they do so no such luck.

Because of everything going on it was hard to tell who was winning in any one events.

But we did win the Men’s 1500m!

Lastly, the Women’s High Jump winner was bizarre. I think she practiced witchcraft before every jump. Here is her flaunting her spell power after winning Gold on a technicality.

She has a sweet costume though. I would totally dress like that for halloween.