The Day of Tourism!

I woke up today and it was the best day there has ever been in Curitiba. The sky was crystal clear, that never happens, and it was 70 degrees about, that never happens. After finishing having lunch with a man from Colorado and pondering whether to strike up conversation in German with the adjacent table, who were speaking it, I took out my damn tourist map and had myself a day.

First, I looked at what was close, and saw the historic district. Mari had told me on Sundays it's the place to be for shopping, and today was Wednesday and I wouldn't shop anyways but I'll be damned if it wasn't close.

So I took my camera, put on my back pack and I walked down Rua Branco and was to go to Sao Francisco. But it seemed to dead end so I took a left and then thought, a right seemed good here and then I dead ended again, so I took a right. The houses and shops looked very old, and I walked in the middle of a very wide cobblestone street. I reached the end of the street and looked at the sign and lo and behold that WAS Sao Francisco. One of those great moments in your life where you just kinda keep going forward and end up where you need to be. But so anyways I get back at 11 and decide, this day isn't close to done, I'm finding that damn Botanical garden. So I walked there, and here are the pictures. I laid around for a few hours and looked at the birds. Listened to music, felt very safe. Saw two horses just tied up to trees, which was odd. And then went to burger king for lunch. No 1 meal for me today!

This is the Jardim Botanica. It is pretty small in person but it looks lovely.
So this Tree is native to Southern Brazil. It's endangered so wherever a tree is, no development can cut it down, merely build around it. It's a pretty beautiful conifer tree.
South American skies thru American eyes. Much more distinctive in person, it looked like Bob Rossi was painting the sky.

-BM