We are in Rio!!!!!

Last night we had our first concert in Salvador, and it was pretty successful. The orchestra will settle down as we play more. The soloist for the Dvorak cello concerto performed an encore of a slow movement of the sixth Bach suite. Suddenly I was struck with a profound homesickness, particularly for Louella playing that movement early in the mornings at Cazadero. I started to cry - I missed home so much, and the cellist´s selection of that particular piece was somehow a key to what I´m normally doing in July -- Cazadero.
Our concert ended at around midnight (things get started much later here) and then we boarded busses back to the hotel. We arrived at 1:30 AM and then had to meet in the lobby at 4:15 AM to catch a plane to Rio. We arrived in Rio de Janeiro around 11, and had lunch. I still haven´t had more than a couple hours sleep.
Some friends and I went to the top of Sugar Loaf this afternoon, which are two huge mountains over the city tied together with a gondola. (Kind of like the pods in Portland.) You can see everything, the whole city, the Copacabana, Impanema, and the Christ statue. And we couldn´t have timed it more perfectly - the sun was setting, and the full moon was rising while we were at the very top. It was so beautiful.
Tomorrow we have our next concert. Then it´s on to Sao Paulo.