At 9pm last night 300 of us boarded buses for the 30 minute ride to the "Sambadrome". There we experienced a two hour Brazilian show with beautiful girls dressed in beautiful costumes, abeit skimpy costumes at times, and some great Samba music and dancing by talented young men and women. It was a show with a variety of high energy acts. Except for the emcee, it was very nice. We did not get back to the ship until after midnight.
We decided not to venture off the ship today. Yesterday there was only one other cruise ship besides us here. Today there are 6 ships. Our guide last night said it would be crazy in town today with this many people and besides it is VERY hot again today. I could not get on the internet until noon because they were rebooting system for the new cruise segment. So I climbed 120 floors for my exercise this morning. That took 45 minutes. Rebecca also worked out then she did some laundry. I also made 3 reservations for this coming segment for dining at Prime 7 Steakhouse. While there I ordered veal Parmesan for tonight's dinner. We ordered a couple chicken Caesar salads for lunch from room service. I had finished mine and Rebecca had about 2 bites left when she noticed something crawling in it that should not have been. I told her there were usually 2 so ask what happened to the other one. I called room service and ask for a supervisor to come up to our suite. He was so apologetic and said he was rushing it to the Food & Beverage Manager to show him. I expect we will be hearing personally from him later. With the massive amounts of vegetables and other foods coming on board, you can expect this may happen. Just so it is not recurring and this is first time in over 200 days on Regent.
So the old passengers have left and the new 400+ ones are on board now. We will sail at 5pm for Salvador, Brazil. Tomorrow is a day at sea though as we will not arrive there until Monday. It should be pretty sailing out of Rio's harbor.
