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Day 264 - 24 March 2006 Chã de Igreja, here we come! We hitched, we hiked, we conquered... our buddy from the island next door swung by on the afternoon boat, and I caught a car for us and on the way up north we got my roomie who picked up some firewood at the school. from our destination at the Select store at the Shell gas station, we swung a few Pirates...YARRRRRRRRR!!! and head to the other side of town to catch a car to Chã. eventually finding one, we made it to a fork in the road about an hour hike outside of Chã and hoofed it the rest of the way into the night sky. we reached town just after dark after walkin through the valley of the shadow of Chã and made our way to Sr. João’s house to say hello and taste some of the smoothest grogue EVER! after that, we went down to a flat area below the cemetery to camp out enjoy our own version of Quizno’s with cheese and BBQ ruffles sandwiches on the campfire...mmm mmm goooood... from there, some locals crashed our party but B.T.O.G.- brought their own grogue! 5 gallons of it! =DANGEROUS! as the night went on, we all chopped it up, drank it up and ate up the food. well, you know where this is goin some pictures of the festivities were taken and can be seen here. so the guys all invited us to their houses the next morning for breakfast and lunch and gave us CVean directions to their house (it’s close to that thing, you know by João’s house. João is the most common CVean first name.) so apparently later on in the night after the guys head back home, the 3 of us are just chillaxin, enjoy the grogue coursin thru our veins. then for some reason I just start pickin on my buddy from the island next door, callin him city boy and whatever and I throw my flashlight at him (it’s a pocket flashlight). it hits him pretty hard cuz I can’t feel my own strength and he throws it back at me, and I continue to pick a fight cuz I’m just bein stupid and havin fun. my roomie is just laughin at us. eventually one thing leads to another and I for some reason I scoop up a pile of dirt and rocks and hurl them in his direction. one rock hits my roomie who just keeps laughin at our ridiculousness, and our buddy decideds to take me out and jumps on me and pins me to the ground. I don’t remember any of this, but apparently, I don’t resist and just lie there sayin "I’m just lyin here man...i’m just lyin here..." my roomie gets a li’l concerned to see our buddy jump on me, but with my response he can’t help but roll over on the ground laughin hysterically. my buddy gets up and says quit it and I just say "I’m just lyin here man...juuuuust lyin..." after our li’l tiff, we continue to joke around and have a bit of fun till we all just pass out in our sheets and eventually the cold wakes me up. it’s morning and all I can see is my roomie’s blanket over there. eventually the same guys who crashed our night party swing by and serve as a wake up call as they head out to work on the roads. what a bunch of crazycool guys! we get up, shoot the shit a bit, and they take off for work. we clean up, I look for my misplaced flashlight, rule it missing and we roll back into town. as the day wears on, I find new bruises and scrapes from the pounce on me the night before. I just giggle and show off my new war wounds to my buddies. a good time and a bunch of great laughs for all...too bad we never made it to Topa. one day... <--- chillin wit da boyz                loja laughs --->