First something on the current status of everything. Our instrument is still in customs BUT, and thats the good news, we were told it's pretty likely that it will be released today (Friday) which means it might be released Monday ;-) So we are quite confident to start setting up at the field site by the middle of next week.
Right now everybody is dealing with his daily buisness, as far its possible via internet and email, we got our police registration done, we still need to get this and that equipment, so we are keeping ourselves busy.
After having our first group meeting last night, we decided to follow the advice of the locals and head out for "pre-karneval" at a bar close to the hotel. Pre-karneval basically is a band contest to decide on which band will be allowed to play during the real karneval next week.
Since we were sent to a bar, we expected some decent party, but what we found was a whole street totally crowded with people. Mobile bars all over the place, and music probably loud enough to keep the whole block up all night long.
Since everyone needed to get up more or less early the next morning we just stayed a couple of beers or caipirinhas long, but it was definetly worth the experience and I guess we can all highly recommend karneval for those who will be here next week ;-)
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Gorgeous!
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