Dec 22 2006
Brazil Trip Diary: Day 9
I am writing this blog on an airplane. I thought we had the longest day yesterday in Iguacu and how wrong was I! After the dinner and show, we didn’t go to sleep until midnight. Five hours later, we had to get up and dash to the airport. On the way, Valdir told us the bad news: more delays and this time it is really serious. At the airport, we were told our 6:40am flight wouldn’t leave until 1pm at the earliest. We were sent back to a hotel, slept a few hours and had lunch.
Several false starts later—which kept us up for the entire afternoon—we finally boarded the plane to Manaus through Brazilia. We met the German family yet again. Their flight was delayed and somehow they were put on the same plane as ours. We met another couple from Houston. It looks like we are making friends mainly through delayed flights.
I was exhausted in Brazilia. The terminal for other next flight looks like a refuge camp—even worse, much worse, than the scene in Sao Paolo. It was terrible.