Shrouded in Mistery

Yesterday, as it was scheduled to change from 'Mostly Cloudy' to 'Partly Cloudy' by 9am, we decided to attempt to see the Christ the Redeemer statue. We had a really nice driver that took us first to a nice lookout area to see Sugar Loaf Mountain - here it is in the background behind Mark. We wasted a little time here waiting for the fog to clear.When we got to the base of the statue, it was still quite foggy. So we waited there and every so often it would clear enough to get a picture, and then he would disappear in the fog again. We decided he was 'shrouded in mistery' ... and yes, I mean mist! After about an hour, when our driver was scheduled to pick us up, the sky really started to clear! So, we finally got a few better pictures.And here's one looking up from the base of the statue. It is 130 feet tall and weighs 700 tons.Then we went back to the overlook after it had cleared up and we could actually see the statue there on top of Corcovado Mountain behind me. We couldn't see it at all when we stopped there before. You may have to click on the picture to see it...
Here is a zoomed in picture so you can see him atop the mountain. There beside the lookout, one of the drivers had a banana he was feeding to the little marmosets. They seemed to be enjoying it. We thought this one looked a little drunk on banana.