July 26,

Today is our connection day and we are in the eastern time zone equivalent. We were up & about by 0700. We made our Javas then contacted my mother and her husband via a Whatsapp video. They are doing well and trying to stay cool, just like us. The heat index was 116° a couple of days ago!! Our temperature here is in the lower 90s with a feels like around 100°. So similar. When we finished catching up we had an oatmeal breakfast with walnuts and honey. Yum!

Then at 1100, we did a Zoom link with our church back home. We chatted and watched the service. When it ended we signed off. I blogged and Jeff planned. I had a snack of crackers, but Jeff didn’t eat anything. Then around 1400 we went out to get some groceries for dinner. We discovered that there had been some sort of an event on the street near us. The street was blocked off, but everyone was picking up and putting things away. So we missed something. Then we noticed that all the shops seemed closed up on every street. It is Sunday…don’t know if this is the reason for the closures or not. So Jeff googled for a grocery store that was open. He found one that was relatively close, just over ½ a mile. So we walked there. It is kind of eerie with all the shops closed up. We found it and what we wanted and headed back.

Around 1630 we videoed with my sister and got all caught up. Then we made our supper having a bread pizza. We used a garlic sauce, bacon and cheese. It was great, but the wine we bought was not. It was a Brazilian wine and we just dumped it in the sink. It hadn’t turned, but it was not a taste we appreciated.

We finished the blog and then we chatted with Jeff’s sister and her husband for a bit. They were heading out so it wasn’t a long conversation, but they are well. We finished and listened to some music for a bit then called it a day.

     July 27,

I was awake by 0730, but Jeff awoke at 0530. We didn’t get up until almost 0800 as I napped more. Then we got about. We had our Javas and breakfast of the weird cereal stuff we had with yogurt, walnuts and Nutella. The nuts and Nutella made it better. Anyway, we gathered up our stuff. We kind of packed but we are only going one floor down. Since we are staying two more nights than we had originally booked we have to change places. The place we are in is booked right after us…starting tonight. We went to the fifth floor and a cleaning lady was coming out as we showed up. She confirmed that we were the right people and gave us the key.

This place seems bigger, but probably is not. It is only one bedroom and arranged a little smarter. But it doesn’t have a stove top, oven, or washing machine; rather it has a microwave which the other place did not. Anyhow…six of one/half a dozen of another. Anyway, we unloaded in the new place by ten thirty and went back out by noon. We went to the ferry dock, to discover the ferry we want is coming today, but the earliest will be 2300 tonight…OHH! Well, we probably will not be coming back at that time. We decided we may try in the morning before we go on our one day tour, or when we come back later in the day. No worries. We walked to a place we’d seen yesterday, but it was a sandwich shop. We did not necessarily want that so we opted to just go to the big mall we’d been at a couple of days ago. It had a big Carrefour Grocery store. So Jeff E-hailed an Uber. It arrived and we loaded in to go to the Amazonas Mall. When we got there we walked to the food court. I opted for a Burger King combo, costing 51.90 BRL or $10.12; and Jeff went to Alema getting a Caesar salad with chicken and rice, plus a brownie costing 36.90 BRL or $7.19. He shared the brownie.😆 Then we went inside the mall to get more steps in the air-con! We checked out a pharmacy for more doxycycline, which we are taking for malaria prevention. We had been striking-out getting it here in Manaus. This pharmacy told us it was a “controlled substance” in Brazil. What? HUH? Questions, I have!

So we went to the Carrefour and found stuff to take on the ferry, as we have to pay for meals and don’t want chicken and rice/pasta for every meal again. Then we caught an Uber to our place. We arrived and Jeff set up a video chat with a doctor to get a prescription for the doxy. It cost $23 for the conference call, but he got a PDF prescription. So we went back out to a different, close-by pharmacy. Jeff finally got the medication. Yeah! We went back to our place and settled in now. Supper will be snack stuff if anything.