Brazil – Day 2 – Manaus

Now let me just tell you my camera broke in Dominica! Very sad I know! Now let me also tell you we only have 2 hours to get a new camera in Manaus! Oh yeah one more fact I don’t speak Portuguese and my Spanish barely exceeds the word “Hola!” So we make our way through the port exit up the ramp and on to the streets of Manaus!

Stephanie: "I feel like everyone is staring at us"
Me: "That’s because everyone is staring at us"

When you’re the only natural blonds walking down the street in Brazil you tend to stand out! When there are 2 of you…..we’ll let’s just say you stick out. We walk through the streets of Manaus looking for any electronics store. We look like we know where we are going but really we have no clue! Finaly we see a shop for cell phones so we head there they have nothing but I say espanol o ingles? And say comprar (to buy) and then make motion as if I was taking a picture. She points me in the right direction and we see a big department store called C&A walk in and we see a little stand for cameras they have about 5 different kinds and they are way to overpriced but heck I needed a camera! So I make my way over to the woman who is guarding the case and tell her I want to buy the Sony one……in so many words. Now this is the funniest thing I have ever gone through not only was I laughing but Steph and the 4 other C&A employees that eventually came over to help in the attempt to have a conversation with using both our second languages. Well any way Carlos finally steps up and becomes the assertive one being the most helpful. We went through a bunch of other parts of the conversation apparently I asked what time it was at one point and there was another point where we were trying to talk about the trip. Something I am learning as this trip goes on is that it’s not as much about what you see but about the people you meet and converse with (or at least attempt to).
Any way we got my camera and made our way back to the ship as we had to eat and pack and hop on a bus so we could get on a plane and fly to RIO!!!!!!