On Tuesday we woke up and piled into the van to head off to Le Sitio the home of Roberto Burle Marx. We received a tour of the massive property which included shade green houses, his home, gardens, chapel and collection of plants. We learned a lot about Burle Marx’s life and design decisions when it came to parts of the gardens and home. He has many plants named after him and worked pretty much up until he passed away. At the end of the tour we were given the assignment of sketching a part of the garden that we believed showed one of the principles: contrast, repetition, focal point, balance, scale, sequence, or unity. We drove over and ate at a restaurant with a beautiful view off a cliff while munching down on some rice, calamari, and fried fish. We ended our excursion by stopping off at a beach with amazing views of islands on the horizon. While enjoying time in the sun we played volleyball and cooled off from the heat in the water. Once returning from our long day out we rinsed off the sand and some people went to see the sunset on the beach while a small group of us grabbed dinner at Delirio Carioca where we ordered feijoada, a signature Brazilian dish.