Message in a bottle #8

DAY 40

5:34pm


Hi from Starbucks Rio (near Copacabana)

 

    What's Starbucks like in Rio

kind of like in Miami
listening to Xmas musics
but wearing shorts

lol

    ew

 

I'm hesitating to just go to the beach after I'm done here

my friends from the cast who all were working earlier haven't gotten back to me

so i think i'm gonna play solo today

 

    Why are you hesitating

 

cause i have my computer with me

and rio is reputated to be a place were you shouldn't even keep your iPhone out

lol

i mean, i should be fine

 

   And your plan is to play solo?
   Not smart
   Don't risk it
   Not worth it come on
   I don't know. Be mindful


i walked around the city all day yesterday with one of the singers...
i got a chance to "take the temperature"

 

seriously, it didn't feel scary or anything

and i walked around all morning by myself

i was fine

i'll see what it feels like when i leave starbucks

if i don't feel it, i'll hop on a cab and go back to the ship, see if i can find company

 

   Alright
   Just be careful
   Doesn't make sense to push it


i won't push my luck

i've been around the world enough to know what crowds are like
 

i ‘m having my third "pao con queijo" here. Those are good!

it’s funny, i'm speaking portuguese with the people at starbucks

 

well bullshitting a lot, mixing italian into spanish

 

people understand me and i get what they say more than i expected

 

well, enough to get food, directions and to be polite

 

    Oh wow. Nice hats

Our Brazilian costumes
They're appropriate right now
Ok gonna head out of Starbucks

I'm having a winter wonderland indigestion lol

(Kidding)

Talk soon!

7:55pm


Had a little walk on copacabana beach then went to meet up with my 2 friends that were at another Starbucks


And now at the steakhouse again

    Were you safe alone?


Yeah


Lots of people. Families etc



At the steakhouse, they give you those little cards

 

You turn it one side or the other to let them know to keep bringing meat or not

 

Day 41

3:40pm

Always wondered what would happen if people didn’t make it back to the ship on time....

 

Well, some guests got stuck at the Corcovado...  like over a hundred people

 

So we’re sailing away an hour later....

 

      So it was Jesus's fault
      Typical

 

Ok gonna log off for a bit. Maybe go up to the upper deck and sunbathe for a bit.

    Lol. Looking the tan huh?

Yup. On a mission
My skin's been resting for almost 48 hours. Time to  do some maintenance work...


AND THAT'S HOW SARAH NEVER CAME BACK FROM HER MISSION!!!


Kidding! She did! But she also got a phone card the day after that. She got lazy. Messages in a bottle, carrier pigeons, emails and even facebook got neglected and we lost trace of all overseas correspondance.
After another month sailing around South America and French Polynesia, she got back to Paris with thousands of pictures from around the world
in her iphone and will share a few more in the next commotion post!
 

 

Posted on July 4, 2014 .