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6 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Dec. 7, 1962 Friday
Place Rio
Weather Cloudy + mild
After our usual breakfast of marvelous papayas & oranges, crusty bread, butter, jam & tea, we went to the museum, where I measured 44 different frogs. Dr. Miranda Ribeiro will get us tickets for the Botanical Garden & take us there on Tuesday. Monday we have to visit the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Doris is disgusted because some fool German who cant describe them properly has taken all the chrysomelid beetles from Rio & São Paulo & [[inserted]]Paraná to Berlin. All the same she wants to go to these museums to see the regular collections. I gave Dr. Miranda two pieces of gar-scale jewelry for his fish products exhibition in the museum. Bertha took us part way home, & we got a taxi thru a lovely old residential section with lovely gardens & nice big old-style french-looking stucco houses of pink, blue, green, yellow & other colors. We saw the park back of the Monroe Palace opposite our hotel, & it is full of stray cats & kittens which Doris wont let me touch!
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 7
Date Dec. 8, 1962 Saturday
Place Rio
Weather Cloudy + mild
This morning we took Bus #19 to the foot of Gavea, about 45 minutes' trip, thru office, residential & very poor districts, but all interesting. The gardens of the nice old houses were lovely with strelitzia, oleander, hibiscus, ferns, variegated leaved plants of many kinds, + others I did not know. We went to the end of the line, & returned halfway to Copacabana, where we sat on the beach watching the marvelous breaking waves. Some skimmer-like birds were diving for fish & boys with small surfboards swam away out & came in on the wave. I picked up a few mussel shells, but it was a very barren place. We walked thru the market back up the beach to see the many fruits, vegetables, fish & household articles for sale. We had lunch at a very nice, clean restaurant —fried chicken, beans, potatoes, tea & bread for 770cr (about .$80) each. We tried to visit the art gallery this afternoon, but it was closed, so we went to see "Kind hearts and coronets" with Alex Guiness, a delightful satire. Two battleships in the harbor below our windows are brilliantly lit up to-night.
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