Saturday Samba

Andrea picked up my passport from San Francisco this morning, newly stamped with a Brazilian visa. We fly out Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, our cheap tickets take us through Chicago, so there's a lot of flying involved.

I'm excited to go, but I have two concerns: 1) Getting kidnapped. 2) Not having Internet access for two weeks. Andrea's sister has DSL, but it's an hour or so away from her parents' house, where we'll be staying.

I've downloaded a Portuguese-English dictionary for my Palm phone, stocked up on Claritan and sunscreen, so I'm all set. We'll take lot of pictures.