New Year´s stage

While beach was done for me and i was leaving at 4pm, the final arrangements were being done for one (of many!) Barra New Year´s Celebrations on Dec 31

Hello 2012...

No fireworks for us since we were at a small dinner with friends, but here is Jan 1´s main headline not only because of fireworks: The celebrations of the pic happened in a newly "pacified" slum, Rocinha, which also happened to be the largest slum; the caption says that they had the view (privileged) of 2 different fireworks gathering: at Lagoa and at Copacabana... That this year may bring them the well-deserved peace...