Long day

We started out early yesterday with two site visits with Brazil's largest HMO. It's an HMO but a very high quality one with minimum 30 minute office visits and a gorgeous cardiology facility. The VIP room is nicer than any hotel room I've ever stayed in (whether I was paying or somebody else was).
Of course the questions kept coming back to quality control and peer review of the doctor's and their medicine and the answers kept coming back to the cost efficiency, but what did you expect?
Then off to the domestic airport where we could wear our shoes and jackets through security and did not have to remove every lotion bottle and electronic item from out bags so things went smoothly even with 40 people.
Only a 45 min flight to Rio. Just enough time for Michael, and a half a dozen other men, to fall in love with the blond flight attendant with the perfect nose and flawless skin.
Landed in Rio in what was apparently uncharacteristically clear weather with Christ the Redeemer looking down on the City. One is immediately reminded of a South Africa and Table Mountain (on a littler scale).
On the bus and straight up (well technically it takes two trams) to the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain to enjoy the view. Then back down half way for a little cocktail party with caipirinhas which made dinner (which we still had) superfluous and redundant.
A long day but a nice one.
Pictures to follow. Gotta run.
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