Morro Branco

We spent the weekend at Morro Branco – a ridiculously picturesque beach south of the city. The area is famous for its multi-colored sand dunes and artisans who turn the various shades of sand into art.

The dunes have a labyrinth where you can look at the sources of the colored sand. Our little sister was freaking out about the labyrinth, even though it only had 1 walkable path.

There is also a mineral water fountain, naturally called the “fountain of youth,” which comes out of a small hole in the dunes.

The "artistic" picture Morro Branco is just beautiful!

Lying in very warm puddles created by the waves on the beach promotes tanning

We also went swimming at night, it was fun, albeit cold
We love our grandma!!!

The one down side of the trip was that our family invited a friend along. Between the two of us we probably diagnosed her with every personality disorder we’ve ever learned from Dr Hobbs as well as a bad case of verbal diarrhea (the woman would not stop talking about how everything good in the world is basically related to her). This morning, she talked so much and so long about how much her patients at the dental clinic love her that she ended up being two hours late to see said patients. Professionalism fail.

Aside from the personality disorder dentist, we ended up having a fabulous weekend with the family and got a few colored-sand trinkets with inscriptions made in sand.

The whole family

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Climbing the sand cliffs was a blast!