Alby's Rio Explosion

Day 2 in Rio:

we had an awesome brazilian bbq lunch buffet which only cost us 15 reals which is about 5 US dollars. Waiters come along with huge skewers of meat and cut it off for you. There is also a decent selection of salads and other food also. We all stuffed ourselves, but alby was weak, only managing a small amount of food. This was the first sign of things to come.

Went to the Chris the Redeemer Statue. 30 Reals. Worth every cent.
We could not even see the statue from the base of it, it was that foggy. Visibility was about 5 meters and tehre was a decent wind blowing. We had about 1 second glimpses of some parts of rio, but that was about all.

We then headed to ipanema, which seems to be a richer part of rio, more trendy boutiquey shops. After walking around for a while, we decided to catch a taxi home.
It was then that albys promises of explosions came to fruition. We got into the taxi and were in it for about 5 minutes, maybe 5 minutes from our hostel. The taxi had stopped in traffic and suddenly, alby said:

" hey guys u reckon maccas has a toilet?"

the next thing we know we heard the door of the taxi open and close and alby was running accross the street. The driver looked at us , we looked at the driver. Both as stunned as the other. We managed to explain to the driver that alby ran for a toilet, got him to pull over and we got out.

We went to maccas to look for him and calling into the toilet, we heard weak reply that he was in there. All i can say is, im glad he made it, before the explosion overcame him.

The driver must have thought we were gonna do a runner on him, alby just suddenly got up and ran for maccas. I guess u just had to be there.

Miles