Marmoset

Marmosets are monkeys and this one is about the size of a small cat, sighted at the tram station on Sugar Loaf. It was climbing all over the food vendors' cases, but the vendors must be used to it since they didn't shoo it away. But it couldn't get at the food either. A little cutie!

Roundabout

To get to the top of Sugar Loaf, one has to take two trams, one from the street level and a second one from an intermediate station. Yesterday's photo was taken at the intermediate station. So is today's photo looking back down to the roundabout next to the big parking lot for the mountain tram.

Sugar Loaf

We spent two days in Rio and on the first day we took the tram to the top of Sugar Loaf.

You may recall that 4 weeks ago I took a couple of days off to have corrective hammertoe surgery. Today the pins were removed from the two pinned toes and it was slick as a whistle or smooth as silk or something like that! I still have to wear the boot for a while longer because of course bones and tendons don't heal in 4 weeks. So far so good - I have straight toes. My job is to see that they stay straight until they are healed. And with minimal pain meds, I've had no pain throughout.

First sight of Rio

We came into Rio de Janeiro in the late evening, so this is a photo of our first sight, taken from the ship. The central feature is Sugar Loaf Mountain and the bright light on the peak to the left of Sugar Loaf is Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) on Corcovado Mountain.

Back in the late 60's I had a Harvey Mandel LP that I loved called Cristo Redentor. Ignorant of Portuguese (Redentor is Spanish too) as I am, I thought he had made up that name!