“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
Hello everyone!
Portugal was pretty amazing! As many of you know I spent the whole time at the beach. I had to soak up the sun and swim in the ocean that has been teasing me for the last month! It was so gorgeous. The first day we walked 3 hours to the beach when we realized that we could hop on a train in order to get there. So we did not have much of a beach day that day.. but it was still wonderful none the less. The beach we went to was in a city in Caiscas (I don't know if I spelled it right). The sidewalks of the city were blue and white stones and the buildings were small but painted a whole bunch of different colors. We decided to get a bottle of the Portuguese Rose Wine and sit on the beach to watch the sunset! It was absolutely breathtaking. I tried to capture the beauty but my camera did not do it justice...
The next day we went back to the beach and hung out there all day! BOY do I have some good tan lines now :) The water was so cold.. you could hardly stay in it for very long. Once we had enough of relaxing we rented paddle boards and paddled around the harbor for a little.... let me tell you... that was a great workout! We left the beach after sun down and decided to see what the night life was like. So we went to a bar where we met some really friendly guys. They took us around the area and showed us where the best places were to hang out. It was a great night.
The third day we went to the Oceanarium... which is a huge Aquarium. It was wonderful. The had a whole tank for just sea turtles! So of course I had to hang out there and watch them until my friends dragged me away. But there was a wide variety of sharks, fish, otters and octopi. I was kind of bummed out that they did not let you take any pictures.. but I guess it was for the best. We left there just in time. By the time we got back to the ship we had 15 minutes until "on ship time". If you are late you have to stay on the ship longer in the next port. I really failed on taking photos. I have about 10. I was waaaay to distracted :) I also was kind of bummed that we did not travel around Lisbon very much... it just means I will have to come back....BUMMER! It was such a beautiful area.
Well here are some pictures!
those pictures are breath taking! its so awesome to see the waves hit the rock in the 1st picture, and of course you look absolutly goregeous in the 2nd one :)...sounds like portugal was a complete blast hanging by the beach, meeting the locals..even tho you failed at picture taking i bet you have at least double the stories to make up for it :)
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