Day 18 in the Big Brutha Special Bus

"HOW HARD CAN IT BE??"

Number of hours in the Special Bus: 6

Number of MacD´s: one each please (they don´t do breakfast you know!)

Kit´s dreams finally came true and MacDs was on the menu for breakfast and off we set for Rio...for the first time ever it was almost a race (amongst us girls) to get in the sixth `nomination´ seat which is small and spaceless and luggage falls on you continuously...but in this case (as we head into Rio...city driving...no road signs...a really vague map...) it is the seat furthest away from the Navigators seat! Johnboy stepped up to the task full of optimism...we all keep quiet! Until Westlife came on of course and then we `serenaded´! Although the "one skip a day" rule went out the window at that point...we think Kit and John may have been having some issues that not even Mandy could help with.

After driving in the wrong direction down a one-way street we found the hostel and what we thought was a friendly gentleman´s garage to leave the special bus in. We were slightly alarmed by the 10´ bunk beds with three beds but soon got over that when we realised none of us would have to scale the heights of the room to go to bed at night. There was another reason none of us were particularly keen to sleep on the very top bunk and that was because of the attractive pair of gold undies we found up there....s´niice!

We ate sandwiches for dinner and realised maybe our portuguese skills hadn´t come as far as we´d hoped when we nearly ended up with four beers instead of the cheque!