Red Carpet Arrival

So, due to lack of internet, I have been a little slow to update you on the events. I expected the city to be a small village and our hotel to be grass huts in the forest. That shows how much I look into things, for when we arrived I found out that the city is huge and our hotel is a massive 4 star hotel. Not to say that everyone speaks english, wow is that a barrier to get past. You tend to resort back to hand signals and saying things louder, neither of which are very reliable.
On Monday we took a river boat 3 1/2 miles up river to another hotel for the night. This hotel was more to the expectations. If anyone has seen (or was there during the build) the tree top platform that we build in highschool, in the forest back home, imagin that x1000. The hotel is made up of multiple towers, some with rooms in them, others with a bar and a restarant, all precariously balanced on stilts 40 feet in the air. All of the towers connected by bridges that span over huge grassy areas, and over trees that are all underwater during the floods each year. The hotel is over run by squirl monkeys, that will jump from railing-your sholder with out thinking of it, if you have food of course. The night we were there couldn't have been better, we arrived in time to have a few beers before dinner and chill with the monkeys. At which point a huge amazon thunderstorm broke out, we had front row seats to the sickest lightening display I have seen! The storm ended just in time for dinner, followed by an awsome beach party!
We are back in Manaus now, closing out the film festival. At the end of the week we plan on moving on to another part of Brazil (not sure where quite yet) to scout for our film. I will do my best to keep you all updated, but can't promise when that will be! haha

Later!