Poppin’ in the Amazon with Rio 2

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When the first Rio movie was released, my fam­i­ly and I were soooo excit­ed to see it! Hav­ing been born and grown up in Brazil until the age of 11, I was thrilled when I heard about this ani­mat­ed movie and upon watch­ing it, the entire fam fell in love with it. So much so that in that same year, my daugh­ter, Anabelle, decid­ed to dress up as one of the main char­ac­ters of the movie {Jew­el, the blue macaw} for Hal­loween! With the assis­tance of my incred­i­bly tal­ent­ed friend, Clau­dia of Tini Posh who cre­at­ed the gor­geous tutu dress and my dad who burned a few fin­gers off by hot glu­ing blue feath­ers to what once was angel wings, the cos­tume came to life! I fin­ished it off by paint­ing a beak, glu­ing blue feath­ers and adding a pink flower to a plain mask for her face. Not only did she resem­ble the blue macaws from the film, the out­fit was also rem­i­nis­cent of the amaz­ing cos­tumes worn by sam­ba dancers dur­ing Car­naval. Well, a more kid-friend­ly ver­sion, that is! Lol!

As my mom’s birth­day rolled around last Sep­tem­ber, I thought a Brazil­ian cel­e­bra­tion with a fun, yet more mature feel would be per­fect. We threw this Let Me Take You to Rio par­ty, com­mem­o­rat­ing with tra­di­tion­al Brazil­ian food, such as bbq meat {chur­ras­co}, cox­in­ha, pão de quei­jo, as well as drinks and, of course, sam­ba music!

With the 2014 FIFA World Cup just end­ing in Brazil, it’s already been a live­ly {and extreme­ly nerve-wrack­ing} Sum­mer, as my fam­i­ly and I cheered on both the USA and Brazil teams. Sad­ly, nei­ther of our teams made it to the final game, so when we heard that Rio 2  was final­ly being released on DVD, it def­i­nite­ly cheered us up! Anabelle and I had seen it when it first came out in the­aters, but the hub­by had yet to watch it, which made it a per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty for fam­i­ly movie time!

 

As soon as the Rio 2  DVD was released on July 15th, we head­ed to Wal­mart and picked up the DVD com­bo pack, as well Pop Secret pop­corn because seri­ous­ly, how can a movie be enjoyed with pop­corn? My daugh­ter has such a deep love for pop­corn that would eat pop­corn every sin­gle day of her life if she had the chance! To trans­port us to Brazil, I served the deli­cious but­tery pop­corn in a wood­en banana bowl with the icon­ic Christ the Redeemer stat­ue, along with a pop­u­lar Brazil­ian soft drink called Guaraná in lit­tle coconut cups with paper straws and umbrel­las. It was a sim­ple way to add to the entire expe­ri­ence and make it a mem­o­rable one!

Not only did we have so much fun watch­ing the movie and snackin’ on pop­corn and Guaraná, we end­ed it by hav­ing a Rio dance par­ty! The music in the film is infec­tious and you can’t help get­ting up and danc­ing. One of our favorite parts of DVDs is check­ing out the bonus fea­tures ~ out­takes are at the top of our list when it comes to extras! The Rio 2 Blu-Ray’s fea­tures include sing-alongs and step-by-step danc­ing instruc­tions that my lit­tle danc­ing queen can­not resist!

If you haven’t already, I would high­ly rec­om­mend pick­ing up a copy of Rio 2 to enjoy with the fam­i­ly this Sum­mer… over and over and over. We’ve already watched it four times so far in less than a week! 😉 Whether you are inspired with ideas above to throw a large the­mat­ic par­ty or a small fam­i­ly movie night get-togeth­er, I guar­an­tee you will have a blast! And to save while you pop your selec­tion of movie-watch­ing snacks, click here to enjoy $1 off any Pop Secret pop­corn at Wal­mart {while sup­plies last}!

 

Merci Beaucoup!

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