Churrascaria

Here's another blog rewind...

When we first got here we had to drive around a little to find our hotel. While driving around we saw a Brazilian Grill restaurant. So we get to our hotel and meet our new friends, the Marlins, who are on their way to Brazil. Great! We tell them about the restaurant, it's a Churrascaria, called the Ipanema Grill. Sounds like fun so off the 10 of us go, dressed in our most comfortable casual wear, of course.

The cloth napkins should have been the first clue, when they asked us if we had reservation we really should have gotten the hint. But no, we sat ourselves right down, to distracted by the Brazilian Portuguese sign on the table to notice how far out of our league we were... We opened the menu and AGGGGH! One choice and that choice was $27.95 per person... $10.95 per child. Whoa baby, we're getting reimbursed for our meals but that's a little over our daily allotment!

Now we all start nervously looking around and sizing up each other... what are we going to do? We all started adding up what the actual damage would be... especially considering that the menu is ALL meat... and we have three small girls who barely make a dent in a $3.99 plate of chicken nuggets and fries. The Marlins have 2 older girls who they would have to pay full price for... that's big bucks friends.

So we very gracefully stood up and quietly exited the very cool restaurant and headed to Chilis:)