Headed down the Amazon River

We are headed down the Amazon River in the center of Brazil now and are expected to reach Manaus, Brazil Sunday morning at 8am.   When we arrive, I will be the trip leader for taking a group of 81 SAS students on an overnight tour of parts of the Amazon aboard a riverboat.  We will taking side tours in kayaks to see plants and animals in the Brazilian rainforest, then sleeping aboard the riverboat in hammocks!!  Then, its on to spend a few days touring the famous city of Rio de Janerio.  We take a bicycle tour and the climb the mountain to see the huge Christ the Redeemer statue along with the other tourist sites.  I will let you know what the Rio nightlife is like after I return, but I am expecting that experience to be a "10" :>>