Rio De Janeiro March 4

This was a change over day for the start of a new segment and we exchanged about 400 passengers.  One thing I meant to mention in an earlier post was about the group of 41 Indonesian guests that were on the last segment.  They really like their alcohol.  They drank the ship out of Dom Perignon champagne, 48 bottles worth, plus at least 2 bottles of Johnny Walker Blue and a bottle of $4000 wine. There may have been more!

We decided to stay on board today and just shop in the terminal.  Tom did not have the patience to sit on a bus in traffic again today and the only tour that was offered was to Sugar Loaf and Copacobana Beach and we had already done both of these tours.

There were two other large cruise ships in port so the terminal was very chaotic. We were supposed to have a "Sail Away" party at 6 pm, but during the lifeboat drill it was announced that we were waiting for some parts and would not sail until 9 pm.  We could not remember having a sail away party since we left Miami.

The next two days will be sea days.

Every day in Rio there were huge flocks of Frigate Birds circling overhead

The city of Rio as we sailed away

The new art museum near the cruise terminal