Diana and me post-carnaval 
Had a lovely evening last night at Club Moda. Perfect post-exam event. Music, dancing, colorful costumes, a live band, and some good friends. I attended a Brazilian Carnaval in downtown Cleveland. It was AWESOME! The place was packed, we have some great performances by a band called Pimenta Malagueta (type of hot pepper from brazil), capoeira performers, Batucada drummers, samba dancers, and costumes. We danced all night and into the wee hours of the morning. It was really an amazing crowd. People would join in with the performers, everyone from age 20 to 50 seemed to know the samba nad at least some capoeira moves. I loved watching the capoeira performance, it looks like their dancing under water. I finally figured out how to samba too, lol took 4 hrs, but i think i have a basic handle on it. Everyone had such a good time. THere was even this funny little man on the dance floor. He must have been at least 60 yrs old, just shy of 5 feet. He was really dancing though! Samba is such an energetic dance too! He'd just wiggle his way into the middle of the dance floor and ask random young ladies to dance with him. Hehe..everytime I turned around he was turning some different young thing on the dance floor. We stayed til 2 then headed home...5 hrs later i headed to Cleveland Hopkins INternational and now I'm in San Antonio Texas for the week. Hope we get some sun.. ¶ 16:30