Today we FINALLY arrived in Salvador! It was a lengthy journey, leaving Denver at 7am. After stopping in Orlando, FL; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Sau Paulo, Brazil, we arrived in Salvador at 930am local time. Definitely sleep deprived but feeling high on our journey! Thanks to our solamente Portugese speaking leader, Gavin, all travel connections went smoothly.
First things first, we picked up our World Cup tickets and through the luck of the lottery, we got four seats in the 5th row and four in the 18th row! People are paying around $1,000/ seat for these tickets (we didn't pay near this much)!
We settled into the Maristella Pousida Hotel and our friend, Evan, who has been traveling Central and South America for the past two months, reunited with us. It is so great to see him! We walked a couple of blocks to the beach for the rest of the day and the tides were rippin' and the sun was hot. Thanks to our weather aficionados, James and Gavin, we were able to watch the cumulonimbus :) storm clouds roll in around 2pm. Thanks to our non-weather aficionados, the walk home was extremely windy and wet. Luckily our hotel is in such great location that we've been able to walk to restaurants serving local Bahia meat and seafood and even a special gelato cafe... where Jeff may have overindulged!
Playing cards and sipping some celebratory drinks at the moment, we are enjoying our first night down in South America! What a great group of people to be surrounded by :) Counting down the minutes until we are finally able to sleep horizontal, tomorrow will continue our incredible adventure...
Denver --> Orlando!
Tim Tim ("Ching Ching"),
Anna
| Our seats for June 13th! |
Denver --> Orlando!
Tim Tim ("Ching Ching"),
Anna
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