Casualty Count: Week 1

So nearing the end of week-one, here's the list of those lost/harmed:

• 1: ticket USA v GHA - abandoned in ABQ

• 1: iPhone - last seen ATL
• 1: extra-heavy duffel bag - AWOL somewhere between ATL and GRU; turned up about 48hrs--and $300 worth of designer chonies--later
• 30: pounds of water weight - whomever said 100% humidity wouldn't matter much during winter in Rio was wrong...so very, very wrong
• 25: limes - sacrificed in service of making one pretty good batch of homemade caipirinhas (humblebrag alert!) 

• 60(-ish): 1.5L bottles of H2O - USEFUL COLLATERAL INFORMATION -an empty 1.5L water bottle, with the use of a funnel, makes an excellent cocktail shaker
• 3: dozen cervejas/pao de queijo (estimated) - Brahamas/Antarticas/Bohemias/etc. beers and/or number of Brazilian cheese bread balls we've killed
• 120: hours of our lives (collectively) - spent at Copacabana Beach waiting to get in to the FIFA Fan Fest, comprised of a show by a Brazilian Navy marching band, followed by one by one of Rio's samba schools (awesome), followed by an hour-long concert by Brasilero entertainer Naldo Benny (which, honestly, probably took about 6 hours off each of our lives just in and of itself...sweet Cheebus), followed by about 2 hours of watching Brasil getting its first W against Croatia in the opening match with about 20,000 of our closest friends

• 20,000,000,000: skin cells - likely sentenced to an early and completely unnecessarily early death because I had to learn my annual "use more sunscreen, idiot" lesson the hard way. Again.
• 2: keys - word to the wise, keep your keys away from the Chapman boys; after two of these in the span of three days, it would appear that we are much stronger than we think. Or dumber. Whichever.