Today we went to the big central market and I got some cool T shirts for 5 dollars. We ended up staying all day practically. Breakfast comes with the room at this hotel (Cili) so our schedule is to meet in the dining room around 9 or 10, Ni is always the last to join us because he is working in his room, the hotel rooms have free wireless. We have breakfast and we are off around 11AM. This morning Bobaloo drove us to the Central Market of Aracaju and we picked up some stuff for the boat like duct tape, a table cloth some hooks for hanging lines, fishing gear and T-shirts. I got embroidered T.s for 5 dollars, that is even cheaper than we got them in Salvador that were not embroidered.We stayed for a couple of beers and a BBQ´d steak lunch in the market around 3:00 with rice and beans and coke,s and the total bill for lunch and drinks was 16 dollars. Not the best place you ever saw but cool and shaded with hundreds of people shopping and eating all around. This is a local market so it was very difficult to find T-shirts with just Brazil and not Aracaju. Ara-caju means Land of cashews. the local farmers grow cashews`and ARA means land, so it is the land of Cashews. We also bought roasted cashews for the boat for under 3 dollars a pound. Then we came back to the hotel, took another shower but i took a dip in the pool (To many screaming kids to enjoy) took a nap and met at 8:00 to walk down the boulevard for ice cream. Everybody is gone back to the room now except Bobballo is watching a movie he bought today on his little DVD viewer in the lobby just above were I am on the Internet. There are two free desktops in the bar but the bar is closed. The hotel is great as they go here. Around 30 dollars a night, on Ni. I share a room with Ray and Ni and Bobaloo share a room. As I have said it has a pool, a restaurant and it is three stories tall with about 70 rooms I suppose. It is right across from the beach and right next to this park area that is developed for all kinds of entertainment. There is a huge children's play are, a couple of race tracks for cart racing and kids rides, soccer fields, fountains, and lakes, lots of grass, and palm trees, park benches and hot dog, ice cream stands and some pretty flower beds. In the evening the place comes alive after the sunset. During the day it is pretty quiet.
Tomorrow we are going sailing with the owners of the yard (Dolphin Yachts) and there family. I guess we are going up the river not outside in the ocean, too dangerous i am thinking.The river is huge, probably a mile across at the mouth but very shallow. It must look like a small Amazon which is only a couple hundred miles north of here. (More tomorrow)
Talking to Ni he is saying hotels are not the most expensive thing in Italy. He says food is really expensive and clothing is outrageous. Touring costs are ridiculous but France is better.
I hope everyone is well, All for now, more tomorrow, Randy
I asked several places downtown today about international phone cards with Boballo as an interpreter, and had no luck. Ray also wants to call home so we are both trying to get cards everywhere we go. This is not an international city 99 percent of the tourists here are from Brazil so there is no need for an international phone system. Sounds strange but that is what I am told. Portuguese is not the same as Spanish so Bobaloo is very handy.