I'm in the jungle bitch!

We sailed down the Amazon. The water is brown. Really brown. And shallow. At one point we only cleared the bottom of the river by 4 feet. And apparently there is this sandbar that is always changing shape somewhere along the river that's the size of Switzerland??! There are bugs everywhere. Everywhere. And they are on steroids. There was a beetle literally the size of my hand on the pool deck. I hate bugs. And my bug spray apparently attracts more bugs than it repels, because I have about 5 bites on my legs from today alone. But we're like 2 degrees south of the equator, so the sunshine is amazing! We had a "reading day" today, and I got to lay out for 5 hours :) The river is actually really wide; at some points you can't even see the banks from the middle. But we got to a narrower part of the river and sailed pretty close to the shore today. It was so cool to see all the huts along the banks. People left their little houses to come out onto canoes so that they could see the ship up close. The little kids were especially cute. I took so many pictures, but none of them can even begin to describe how pretty the jungle is (and I've only seen it from my boat so far!). We get to Manaus, Brazil tomorrow!