Bahia!

We're FINALLY docked in Brazil! We woke up this morning to our cell phones buzzing to change the country code, but that was way before we docked. Now the view outside our window is the port, which... isn't much to look at. We won't be let out of the ship for another 3 or 4 hours. We have to learn to go through customs first. I guess this is one of the longer customs that we'll go through. They have to do a face-to-passport check of everyone on the ship. So they're going to call us up alphabetically by seas (wouldn't you know, my sea is second to last) and even then we can't get off. We have to go to a diplomatic briefing. And THEN we can get off. A lot of people were saying they booked flights for this morning assuming that when it said we docked in Salvador at 0700 it meant, we could get off at 0700. Oops!

I only have SAS things planned today, with a little break in between where I assume a few of us will just get lunch and maybe go to the market which is supposedly right outside port- if it's open... it's Brazil's Independence Day, of course.

I finally stopped feeling sea sick yesterday! A physical therapist on board said you get sea sick because you're visually dependent, and you'll probably still feel the boat long after you're on land. Fabulous.