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December 23, 2005
Em’s Birthday
This morning we celebrated Em’s birthday over breakfast while looking at a gorgeous view of the Atlantic from our hotel. She opened her small gifts that will be easy to carry. It was great that Todd was here to help her celebrate. (Note from Em: Thanks Todd, for the binoculars, and thanks Peter, for the hyacinth macaw earrings—you boys are great!)
Next up we headed down to an artisan market near the port where we all bought each other gifts for our Christmas stockings. It was a little tough as we only had about 35 reales to split up between the three of us but we managed just the same. It will be interesting to see if any of us got each other the same gifts on the 25th.
When we got back to the hotel the guys at the front desk wished Em a happy birthday, “Felic aniversario”. They had remembered as I told them what I was doing when I snuck out to buy her a card yesterday evening. The young Bahian guys that work at this hotel are great. We’ve had fun getting to know them and helping them with their English as they helped us with our Portuguese. It is too bad we couldn’t stay a few more days.
By 2:00 we were on our way to Rio. The trip should be 24 to 30 hours depending on the roads. It didn’t look good to start it off as major section of the road south of Salvador had been washed out and we were moving along at a snails pace. It is hard to believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve Day.
Posted by Peter Mork at December 23, 2005 2:40 PM
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