Last day

I spent my last day in Brazil walking around Sao Paulo with Peter and Ligia. We rode both the bus and the metro as well. It's a huge city, but really spread out, making it much more like Los Angeles rather than New York. Lots of great old architecture mixed in with new buildings. I think the old buildings look like pirate buildings. The Sao Paulo cathedral is very beautiful.

I'll just post a bunch of the photos - they definitely aren't my best. It was a super sunny day and hard to control lighting on the trusty iPhone.

Giant door knocker at the cathedral.

Ligia and Peter with very judgey saints behind them.

I love the palm trees with the cathedral.



Some sort of Justice Lady. (Can you tell I've lost a bit of interest in naming everything?)

Cool old doors on an old bank. You can't tell from here, but they are giant.  Those gold rings are about six feet off the ground.

Sao Paulo is very colorful.

Looking down Avenida Paulista. Lots of really important banks and cultural institutions are here. It feels very modern. (I'm saying "modern" in my head the way a Brazilian would say it right now ... ma-dairne :-)

There's an amazing garden that takes up a couple of city blocks right off the Avenida Paulista. They have signs on a lot of the trees to tell you what they are. It's about 10 degrees cooler inside the park.

Several times in our travels, I saw what at first looked like really cool playground equipment. It's actually part of a national campaign to put weight-resistance machines in open-air gyms in parks all over the country. 

A cool fountain in the cool park that shall remain nameless.

Artists have decorated the phone booths (orelhao - "big ear")  along the Avenida Paulista.