Salvador, Brazil

I know... i know... it has been awhile!  but its the last week of our voyage (CRAZY I KNOW!) and i have been mobbed with work and packing and cleaning.  so here is just a quick detail on what we did the first day in brazil...
We got to Brazil on Wednesday, April 21st and we were there until Sunday, April 25th.  We were docked in Salvador so that day me, Jaime and Tess went out for the day in Salvador.
We took the elevator up to the upper city.  Oh yea, Salvador is separated into the upper and lower city… we were docked in the lower city.  Not much down there.  So we took the elevator up to the upper city and went to the old city.  It started monsooning so we ducked into a restaurant and grabbed some lunch.  That rain was coming down so hard, now I understand why Brazil has been having all these mudslides.  When it cleared up, we went to a church, Sao Francisco and went inside it. So we went into the church and it was beautiful in there… beautiful but creepy in a way.  There were all these statues and each statue was like life-size of all the saints and of Jesus and Mary and Joseph.  But there was beautiful blue and white tile morals.  Upstairs, another creepy part, there was a statue of Jesus being crucified and there was blood pouring out of him.  And then in the basement of the church there were graves!  So it was definitely a little bizarre.  After the church, we had to go back to the ship and grab our stuff because we were going to RIO!!!!
        Our flight to Rio was about 2 hours long, and we landed around 9ish.  By the time we got to our hotel… the Windsor Excelsior in Copacabana, it was close to 10 and we were all exhausted and ended up crashing.  Lame I know.

and tomorrow i will fill you in about RIO!!