Saturday, September 6, 2008

To the Amazon!

Oi! So I am all packed for the Amazon!! I have my airline limit of 11 pounds all packed in my hiking pack and our flight leaves tomorrow evening. We will be getting to Salvador early in the morning, and it takes a few hours to disembark the ship, so we will have a few hours in Salvador, before we have to head to the airport in the afternoon. I can’t believe this trip is finally here! It is one of the countries I am looking forward to the most, and I think this trip will be unbelievable. We are all going ship crazy and we are SO ready to get on land! Our group is of 13 people, and we will be meeting our tour guide at the airport in Manuas at about 1am and we will proceed right to the Amazon and on to our Riverboat for 4 days!! We were planning on sleeping on the deck tonight, and waking up to the sunrise while pulling into port, but rumor has it it is raining right now, so looks like I’ll be waking up at 5am to see the sunrise!! Maybe when I get back to Salvador I will be able to send out some photos, but I might have to wait until Namibia if I don’t have enough time. (we only have about a 7 hour buffer zone for our arrival flight back to Salvador, which is a little nerve wracking, but we are keeping our fingers crossed!) So hopefully I’ll stay clear of Malaria and the dangerous wildlife, but I hope to see amazing sites and can’t wait to share my stories!

OH and Neptune day was yesterday- the ceremonial crossing of the equator…
We had fish guts dumped on us, had to kiss a fish, then several people got their heads shaved…including all but another of the Ithaca crew that is on the ship…including Lacey (my roomie from IC), Ben (a good friend), Greg (his good friend) and another girl from Ithaca…it is quite the seen seeing 80 shaved heads walking around..it was quite the fun day, however I opted to keep my head of hair!

1 comment:

Kate said...

NOO!! hah im semi disappointed you did not shave your head, then again, your new haircut hasnt lived its full life yet. hope the amazon is all youve ever dreamed it would be!! i think about you all the time, i love you!