Fortaleza!

I am going to be perfectly honest.  I do not remember all that much about Forteleza.  It was one of those days when you are traveling that is a little blurred.  We had just had a thirteen hour bus ride the day before and I didn't sleep that well in the hotel, so the pictures are the really the only way that I remember what we did.  Thank you Lulu.  

The beaches were very lovely.  I made sure to take a jumping beach picture on every beach we went to.

We did more dune buggy rides and this part, I definitely remember!  This buggy ride was "with emotion" which meant that there were some steeeeeeep declines that we took at rapid rates.  I hung on to the roof of the jeep thinking, "Dear god, this would never happen in the US."

I fulfilled my dream of riding a horse on the beach!  I was expecting them to hold on to the reins the whole time on the beach or make me wear a helmet or something, but they just boosted my up there in my bikini and bare feet and said go for it! 

This is without a doubt the best trash can I have ever seen in my life.  Filled with just empty coconuts and nothing else.  That one on top was mine.

One of the activities that we did in Fortaleza was sand boarding.  Halfway through our buggy ride we stopped at a little shack that was renting these boards to the buggy riders.  Basically, it was sledding on the sand.  And instead of not wanting to fall off because the ground is so cold, you didn't want to fall off because it was so hot. I couldn't even walk more than 3 steps in my bare feet before jumping up and down with the burn.

And I would like to end my report of Forteleza with this picture of my fantastic American friend and this wonderful donkey.