From: Sherman Rootberg
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Subject: Friday, February 22, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Manaus, Day III
We did mostly nothing today. After breakfast we took a shuttle back to the terminal building. I remembered very well there was nothing there except a bunch of food stands for the locals. Bobbi wanted to go junk shopping and thought there were some stores or stands in that building. There was no way I was going to walk up and down that bridge again, and then it was a long walk to some junk stores. There was nothing we could even find to buy. Everything is very high priced and there is nothing unique to the area that they are selling. Even T shirts are less costly in Miami 
and the quality here is questionable at best. The only other junk we see here is the same beads and wood carvings we see all over the world. It is all the same and must be made in China.
This of course was the end of a segment and the beginning of the last one back to Ft. Lauderdale. We heard that this was the segment with the least number of people aboard. There must have been some big sale somewhere. We have some real yahoos aboard now. One woman comes up to Bobbi at the coffee bar and wants to
know where the free frozen yogurt machine is. Bobbi had to explain that this was not Carnival. You should hear some of the conversations.
At about 6:00 PM we left. We did a U turn and started traveling back down the river. Yee Ha.
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Subject: Friday, February 22, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Manaus, Day III
We did mostly nothing today. After breakfast we took a shuttle back to the terminal building. I remembered very well there was nothing there except a bunch of food stands for the locals. Bobbi wanted to go junk shopping and thought there were some stores or stands in that building. There was no way I was going to walk up and down that bridge again, and then it was a long walk to some junk stores. There was nothing we could even find to buy. Everything is very high priced and there is nothing unique to the area that they are selling. Even T shirts are less costly in Miami and the quality here is questionable at best. The only other junk we see here is the same beads and wood carvings we see all over the world. It is all the same and must be made in China.This of course was the end of a segment and the beginning of the last one back to Ft. Lauderdale. We heard that this was the segment with the least number of people aboard. There must have been some big sale somewhere. We have some real yahoos aboard now. One woman comes up to Bobbi at the coffee bar and wants to
know where the free frozen yogurt machine is. Bobbi had to explain that this was not Carnival. You should hear some of the conversations.At about 6:00 PM we left. We did a U turn and started traveling back down the river. Yee Ha.
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