When we woke up this morning my stomach was killing me and I wasn’t feeling good at all. My Oura Ring said my body temperature was +4 degrees over normal, so pretty sure I had a low-grade fever as well. We had originally planned an all-day tour in Rio and when I woke up I knew that was in jeopardy. I gave it a few minutes but realized that I wasn’t going to make it.

When we originally started to put the itinerary for this year's trip together we were thinking of just doing Rio and Buenos Aires. But as we looked at flights we realized that we’d need to stop in Sao Paulo and so added it on and boy are we glad we did, it was an excellent first stop to the trip. We woke up early this morning for a 6:30 AM pick-up to take us to the airport.

We were both so tired last night when we got back from the 3+ hour dinner that we decided to extend our alarm ahead of time and skip breakfast this morning. It was a good decision and outside of a room service Cappuccino and Orange Juice we rolled out of bed a little after 8 AM and were downstairs in the lobby for our 4-hour tour of Sao Paulo a few minutes after 9.

After a 9-month hiatus, we are back traveling the globe with our first vacation of 2023. But before we got today we should remember that this is a similar trip we had planned in 2020 that was of course canceled due to COVID. After a significant amount of planning, we are off for 10 days in Brazil and Argentina. We began the trip on Thursday, April 20th after a half day of work. I met Jenn back at our apartment where I dropped off Frasier to go to Far Fetched and we jumped into an Uber a little after 3 PM. I am not sure what was going on with our Uber driver but he decided to take the slowest route possible and we made it to JFK a little before 5 PM. A long drive.

It was only two months ago that we had to cancel our trip to Italy & Switzerland following my work trip when Jenn got COVID. The earliest sign that something was off for Jenn was a rash that spread from head to toe over a few days. Yesterday that same rash came back in a few small spots on her legs and unfortunately this morning it spread a bit more.

When I pictured Copenhagen in my head I pictured cold cloudy days with random showers. Luckily we hit it just right and got another perfect day. I’ll never forget opening the blinds in our stunning hotel room this morning looking out on crystal clear skies. We couldn’t have asked for a better day to go exploring.