Many events and concerts around Rio de Janeiro have been canceled as a result of the violence and general unpredictability going on.Today's #'s were slightly better though - hopefully that trend continues.
I checked the government of Canada's travel advisory site and nothing has changed in terms of travel advisories to Rio. Mr. DRL's mom is flying in next week for a visit, hopefully things will calm down before her arrival.
One thing I keep wanting to mention - please remember that anyone who buys drugs basically anywhere in the world is connected and contributing to this violence in Rio and in this case, innocent people being killed. A two year old girl was shot in the arm today. Something to think about if you like to get high...
Rio readers: are you doing anything differently this weekend? Staying in more? Going about your daily rio life?
We went about our normal Saturday errands today, even stopped by the beach for a bit but it was too hot to stay very long. Everything seems pretty normal. Yesterday was normal as well, in fact Prefeitura was still towing cars away like crazy in the midst of all this. Tomorrow my son has a birthday party to go to at a salao de festas in Botafogo but I'm pretty sure we're going to pass on that.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 27, 2010 at 02:17 PM
We changed our usual weekend plans. Saturdays we always seem to end up in Barra, but not today! Staying in Ipanema/Leblon...
Posted by: Jean | November 27, 2010 at 03:12 PM