Hello everyone. Right now we're at a hotel with free wifi so I figured I'd get a quick post up on the blog here. I'll try to add some pictures as well.
Yesterday was a ridiculously long bus ride from Sao Paulo to Foz de Iguacu. We left at 6 in the morning with a 15 hour trip ahead of us. That would have been the case except that when we stopped for dinner around 7 the busdriver discovered that the weird sounds we'd been hearing during the trip were because one of the axles was breaking. We had to wait for a replacement bus to come before we could continue on, which took quite a while. I'm not sure how long it took for the replacement bus to get there, but I do know we watched Bolt from start to finish and the new bus still wasn't there yet (for those of you who haven't seen that movie yet, go see it now. If
you don't absolutely love it then you're probably reading the wrong blog). When our ghetto replacement bus showed up we had another few hours drive and got to the hotel at midnight.
This morning we went to the Iguacu cataracts, which are some of the biggest falls in the world. It was pretty cool to see. The city we're in is called Foz de Iguacu and is right on the borders between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Tomorrow we're going to see the falls from the Argentine side and get right up close to the Devil's Throat. (We saw the Devil's Throat today from a bit of a distance. It's pretty impressive).
In the afternoon we went to Itaipu, the world's most powerful hydroelectric dam. It supplies 90% of Paraguay's electricity with one or two of it's turbines, and the rest supply 20% of Brazil's power. The dam tour guides took us on the dam tour, where we learned a lot of dam facts and they answered all our dam questions. I decided not to buy any of their dam gifts from the dam gift store since their too darned expensive. (You all thought I'd slip up on that last one, didn't you?). As a random side note, on the way out we saw two pink tour buses. They were pretty gay looking, as you can imagine.
For dinner we went to a pizza buffet. Luckily the hotel has a gym of sorts where I could atone for my sins afterward.
Yesterday was a ridiculously long bus ride from Sao Paulo to Foz de Iguacu. We left at 6 in the morning with a 15 hour trip ahead of us. That would have been the case except that when we stopped for dinner around 7 the busdriver discovered that the weird sounds we'd been hearing during the trip were because one of the axles was breaking. We had to wait for a replacement bus to come before we could continue on, which took quite a while. I'm not sure how long it took for the replacement bus to get there, but I do know we watched Bolt from start to finish and the new bus still wasn't there yet (for those of you who haven't seen that movie yet, go see it now. If
you don't absolutely love it then you're probably reading the wrong blog). When our ghetto replacement bus showed up we had another few hours drive and got to the hotel at midnight.This morning we went to the Iguacu cataracts, which are some of the biggest falls in the world. It was pretty cool to see. The city we're in is called Foz de Iguacu and is right on the borders between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Tomorrow we're going to see the falls from the Argentine side and get right up close to the Devil's Throat. (We saw the Devil's Throat today from a bit of a distance. It's pretty impressive).
In the afternoon we went to Itaipu, the world's most powerful hydroelectric dam. It supplies 90% of Paraguay's electricity with one or two of it's turbines, and the rest supply 20% of Brazil's power. The dam tour guides took us on the dam tour, where we learned a lot of dam facts and they answered all our dam questions. I decided not to buy any of their dam gifts from the dam gift store since their too darned expensive. (You all thought I'd slip up on that last one, didn't you?). As a random side note, on the way out we saw two pink tour buses. They were pretty gay looking, as you can imagine.
For dinner we went to a pizza buffet. Luckily the hotel has a gym of sorts where I could atone for my sins afterward.
Good to hear from you. It sounds like a broken bus will add to your adventures as you travel. Love GG
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