Brazil Tour 9: Bouncy Bouncy!

January 8

Breakfast at the hotel and bring our stuff downstairs, checkout. Becca and I walked around the hotel to stretch our legs before the long bus ride and we claimed our seats early. But Becca sat way in the front so that she wouldn’t get car sick and at first she ended up next to Donna (the diva soprano hired to play with us on our trip. Not only was she not a very good soprano but she was more immature than most of the college kids on the trip). Donna got mad cause she wanted to be with her husband AND she wanted to close the curtains but Becca said no because she needed to see in order to not get motion sick. So Donna threw a fit and stormed away and luckily a student traded seats with her so she was happier. One of our trip chaperons told Becca after she didn’t know what to do when Donna was throwing her fit. Becca also tried not to talk to Donna and was looking around like she couldn’t hear her.

When we started the trip Gilda our amazing tour guide started singing “on the road again, that’s the only part of the song I know, on the road again” it was funny. For the first part of the trip I tried to sleep. Then we had a rest stop at the Japanese place again and we tried to get these cheese filled puff things but it turned out to be ground beef-really gross. And I had a can of the peach ice tea that Becca is obsessed with even though she told me it would make me have to pee.  Gilda put “Scary Movie” on which was awkward to watch with your 64 year old tour guide and the parents on the trip.

Oh and then the famous Bouncy Bouncy story: Donna was taking a walk on the bus and first she goes by my friend Courtney and makes the Wallace and Grommit scary teeth smile face. (the order of the seats was me, Eric, aisle, Courtney, Tony). Then on her way back she is going side ways with her back to Courtney and the bus bounced so she went backwards and Courtney opened her eyes just before Donna’s butt hit her in the nose so hard it made her eyes water. Then she rebounded off Courtney’s nose and Eric and I looked up in horror as we nearly got smothered by her massive chest (thank goodness we didn’t). She asked Courtney if she was ok and then said “bouncy bouncy” as way of explanation. It was all we could do to not start laughing until after she moved on . . . ]

The stupid ice tea went through me so I had to pee ridiculously bad but I didn’t want to go on the bus because another student had already destroyed the room.  I kept hoping Gilda would talk about stopping but she kept talking about the scenery and the beaches and how it was her favorite beach. Finally she said we’d stop in 30 min.  So when we finally stopped I leaped over my seat mate to get out of the bus. But I hesitated before going into the place because Gilda had said something about paying. (Later she told us that she hadn’t meant to confuse us, it was just that the bus had to pay, not us, but some countries make you pay for the restrooms so I never know). Luckily I just went though because the line got long after me. Oh and Sara went with me and there was a huge cockroach in her stall-gross. Afterward Becca and I got Nestle coconut ice bar things which are our new addictions-so good. And we walked around outside for a while.  Then we got back on the bus, Adam checked out our bus and told Becca that if the bus crashed she would go threw the window which was not a happy thought for poor Becca.

Then more bus time, I napped a little. Once Becca said to me that too bad naps weren’t measured by the amount of drool you did cause if so she would have had a good nap. Finally we get to Curitiba and Gilda starts talking about how it is dangerous and “yes I know. We care about you, yes, we don’t want you to get hurt. Yes it is dangerous I know” and I turned to Eric saying that maybe she was going to say  “I used to be in a gang.”  Gilda is awesome. We saw their funky bus terminals which are round and look like for outer space.

Check into the hotel in Curitiba, we’re on 7^th floor, takes forever to go upstairs. Our room is cute which I told Becca and Paul the conductor got confused cause he didn’t know how a room could be cute. Then back downstairs for dinner at hotel. Dinner was good though with AMAZING chocolate mousse. Thank goodness Becca and I figured out how to two plate the buffet line-it’s a balancing act, but we got our dessert with our dinner before it ran out.