Day 49 - February 21, 2008 - Manaus, Brazil

Manaus day 2 photos
Today went pretty much as expected. We missed the rain by being out of town apparently. So, we had a beautiful day. We saw giant lily pads, a gator of some kind, a pink dolphin, a monkey and a parrot. It was much more pleasant out of town than in town. The lunch that provided included about 6 kinds of local fish and one red meat dish. It was good.
Today, we saw the Iberostar Grand Amazon come in and sail out again. It is supposed to be a really great way to see the Amazon in comfort. It looked nice. Balcony suites, air conditioning. Had a lot of small motorboats on the back. Also, this morning Fred. Olsen Lines Braemar came in and docked right in front of us.
Tonight dinner is starting an hour early for those going to the NY Theater Guild's Manaus Opera House excursion. Then, Brian Townsend announced that because of a delayed flight that the excursion would be delayed by 30 minutes anyway. That would be a really miserable experience, to fly into this place late and then have to rush off to make a Theater appointment! We were actually thinking that it would be a pretty miserable place to fly in and out of period when we saw people at the Passenger Terminal building this morning trying to identify their luggage with hundreds of ferry passengers coming and going.
So, supposedly with the passengers getting off and those joining, our total population should only be increasing by 50 people. Apparently, the delay caused the Opera House excursion people to get caught in the pouring rain. We did not go but heard a lot of complaints about it later. It only lasted 20 minutes. Ed Asner did not show up and Shirley Jones sat on stage but did not sing.
Anyway, we went to bed early and missed the whole thing.
Manaus day 2 photos