Vacation week - Olinda

We saw about 100 of these critters running around on our trip, this guy was actually running on the ground at the outdoor restaurant we were at.  About a minute later we saw a few monkeys in the trees as well, unfortunately my camera skills were lacking at the time.

The four pics above were from an old church in Olinda.

The two pics above were from a jail that stopped operating in 1976.  All of the cells were transformed into little shops, except for the one with the kids in front (Cell 106 - they left this one untouched from when the place closed).

Every barrel is filled to the brim with cachaca.

The 6 pics above are from a Cachaca distillery (Carvalheira was the brand).  Cachaca is the main ingredient in Brazil's famous caipirinha drink.





The first two days of our trip we stayed in a nearly 500 year old town called Olinda.  We toured the town and took the kids on a few mini field trips which included an old Church, a closed down prison and a Cachaca distillery... a bit different than Maddie's first field trip at school where they visited a farm.