Today was AWESOME!! I woke up at like 7:15 this morning (that part wasn't so awesome) and ate breakfast and got ready to go to the Circus. It was incredible. It was only like a 25 minute bus ride from our port, I fell asleep on the way there. I went to bed at like 2 am last night, so this early start thing was no good. But once we got there, we got out and sat down and learned about the circus and what they do there. They mainly take kids off the streets (Brazil ...

So today was an interesting day. Me and about 14 other girls got up early and met outside the ship so we could go to church. We had planned on going to this one specific church, which didn't work out, so our shuttle driver (who was awesome by the way) ended up driving around for like 30 minutes trying to find a different church. We finally found one and we just saw that it was huge, we had no idea what denomination it was or anything, but we decided to go and see...

Well, we arrived in Brazil safely early this morning! It was really great to get off the boat and walk around. Me and a bunch of other people went to this marketplace and looked around. It was crazy fun. They have such beautiful stuff there, and it's the type of place where you can bargain, so I got some good deals on some souvenirs for a few people. I didn't really buy anything for me yet, but it was only the first day, and I figure I'm going to like 8 more coun...