One day we visited an art museum dedicated to a local artist with Marcio's parents. Apparently the artist -- Iberê Camargo -- had a really dark period and went crazy around the time Marcio's family was living in Rio. I think Marcio's mother said she saw him throw something across a room in anger, but I am unsure whether that was in person or in the news. Regardless, the museum is located in a gorgeous building similar to the Guggenheim in New York.
One unique thing about Porto Alegre (and this region) is that people LOVE drinking a green tea beverage called chimarrão. People walk around the streets and parks on the weekends carrying hot water in a thermos and the chimarrão cup. I will try to post a picture of this later. Here's how it usually works: the yerba mate tea fills up the left half of the cup and then hot water goes in the other side. You drink it through a straw that has a strainer on the bottom to keep out the tea leaves. Then, you pass the cup to whoever you're with and they drink a cup, and this continues for several rounds. I think the tea is kind of bitter but will try it every now and then. The reason this explanation is important is because the art museum specifically forbids chimarrão (see where Marcio's dad is pointing in the picture below). How funny!
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