Do nothing Curitiba

    I have been traveling for 3 weeks and have yet had a do nothing day. I have either been traveling or out hiking somewhere everyday. It was time for a day just to relax, not travel, catch up on internet and relax. Today, december 23 was that day. I walked around the city and checked out a few malls too. Christmas is huge here and there are many decorations. In the center of town is the Rua de Flores, a pedestrian only street with top notch people watching. There's so many weird things here, like a 10m Christmas tree made up of plastic bottles. Another Christmas tree was made of tons of begonias in 10cm pots. Spiderman was around giving the thumbs up, which is very popular here. They give thumbs up more here than any other country I've been to. It's just the culture, one local told me. It rained lightly off and on all afternoon. I found a decent and cheap place to have a buffet meal. I finished off my day seeing the late showing of the movie Buried. Interesting and very original movie about a guy trapped in a coffin.    I wasn't sure what I was going to do the next day. So many options but I settled on the night bus to Foz do Igauzu, the mighty Igauzu Falls which I have really been looking forward to. I will arrive there Christmas morning. I hope all my readers have an enjoyable holiday season. Feliz Natal!