By now the days we've spent here are starting to run together and I'm not sure what happened when. One night, possibly Wednesday, Step and I ventured out into the wild and crazy nightlife of Recife. We were with 7 other people (all from California) and tried out a nightclub on the advise of our cabbies that turned out to be a dud. Unfortunately, we didn't find that out until we had paid our R$10/person cover. We were able to sell one of our tickets to someone coming in behind us, but ended up eating the other one. Next we tried a club called Fashion Club. This club was obviously a happending place since there was a line of people in the lobby waiting to be let in. When we finally made it to the door, we were almost bounced immediately because Stepan had sandals on. I'm afraid we've grown too accustomed to Austin's relaxed dress code - it never occured to either one of us that we may be underdressed! Luckily we had a Portuguese speaker with us who was able to convince the doorman that we were just uncouth American tourists and should be given a break. It was quite an ordeal getting in the club even after we made it past the doorman though it's pretty cool the way they have their system set up. Everyone is issued paper, barcoded cards upon entry. Everything ordered in the club is put on the card and you have to pay your tab and clear your card before being allowed to leave. Once the cards are issued we had to pass through security. I was waived through but they passed a metal detecting wand over Stepan and went through Lisa's purse (she's one of the girls from CA) and confiscated a bottle of water. Once in the club, I was having a great time, but techno/dance music is hard to take for any length of time and Stepan really wasn't enjoying it at all so we left the group around 1:30am and made our way back to the hotel were we collapsed in utter and total exhaustion - what a blast!
Posted by jfer at February 17, 2002 2:12 PM