I’d like to be able to say that the reason I didn’t post yesterday was that I couldn’t get on to the internet but unfortunately, that wasn’t exactly the case. After I posted on Tuesday evening in Rio de Janeiro, I went to bed knowing that we had a 3:30 AM wake-up call in order to shower, dress, have breakfast, and make our 7:00 AM flight. I hadn’t slept well Monday night so I actually fell asleep pretty quickly only to be awakened at about 10:00 PM with a rather violent case of CVS (if you can’t tell by the picture on the left what CVS is, google it – not pretty) which continued off and on throughout the night. Needless to say, I got very little sleep. At times, I just laid down on the bathroom floor and, when it was time to leave, it was all I could do to get myself dressed and down to the meeting area. I felt like I was dying.  My stomach was still very messed up but I hadn’t upchucked (now you know what it is) for a couple of hours so I thought that with a little sleep on the two hour plane ride, I’d probably be okay.

I didn’t eat any breakfast (not even coffee!) but I kept hydrating myself as I felt very queasy and dizzy. We made it to the airport without incident and were just at the entrance to the check-in when all that water I had been drinking decided to come up. No warnings whatsoever. How embarrassing! Our Brazilian tour guide, Carlos, grabbed my suitcases from me as I started running to the bathroom which was being serviced!!! Our tour guide, Carol, took control and they let me in.

Luckily for me, I didn’t manage to get any on me or my luggage, just the airport floor and barriers.  Also, that was the end of it but I felt lousy the rest of the day. We had a scheduled tour and hike on the Brazilian side of Iguacu Falls but I opted out as I felt too weak. The driver took me on a ride through the park and, at Devil’s Throat, I did get off and was able to view the Falls from the Brazilian side.  I did see some amazing sights…

I then sat in one of the cafes, drinking water, watching people, and reading but when even that relaxing an activity became too taxing for me, I went back to the bus and tried to sleep.

Once we got to the hotel (I think it was at about 2:00 PM), I immediately went to sleep for about three hours and when I woke, I didn’t yet feel myself but I did feel somewhat better so I joined everyone for dinner. I selected the vegetarian risotto but only managed a few bites before deciding that I still couldn’t eat. I didn’t even drink the glass of wine given to me. Yeah—no coffee this morning and then no wine. Obviously, something was wrong with me. I went up to bed at about 7:30 or 8:00 PM, read for perhaps a half an hour, and then slept for a solid nine hours.

Internet is VERY, VERY slow here so I am having a lot of problems uploading pictures.  Catch up tomorrow.  So I guess I could have blamed it on the internet!