July 16th, 2011

July 16^th, 2011

Desayuno. (Breakfast). Finally a real breakfast! We loaded up on oatmeal, scrambled eggs, fruit, and croissants before heading out today.

Well this shouldn’t be surprising to me, but nobody speaks Spanish here. I keep finding myself trying to speak Spanish and everyone continues to give me ridiculous looks that seem to say “I know you aren’t Spanish because of your ugly American accent, and I don’t speak Spanish anyways so what are you trying to do you stupid American?”

Moving on… So today we went to some beautiful Plazas in Lisboa and then at noon we headed to Cacais – the most beautiful town I have ever seen! To give you an idea, I took more than one hundred pictures here. It is going to take me a while to sort through those. The cliffs and bays filled with fishing boats were the perfect backdrop for the colorful buildings and flowers. It was a perfect day and everyone was having a great time. The girls and I hung out at the beach for hours. I’m sorry; I mean we hung out at the nude beach for hours. And I am proud to say the three of us went topless! I only lasted a couple minutes because then I over heard some girls say: “Are those girls from our program? Is this even a topless beach?” Oh well. People can judge if they want. Probably the only time in my life that will ever happen!

After the beach we roamed around and had yet again a delicious seafood dinner. I had a calamari and shrimp kebob. Perfecto. Probably the BEST part of the night was after when we went to a gelateria on our way to the metro. The most adorable Portuguese man in a fedora hat was behind the counter and he let us try every flavor! He said we were having an ice cream party! When we asked for his picture he went nuts, ran around the counter, and immediately started throwing out dozens of poses. When he asked if we wanted hat or no hat, we obviously answered hat – that was the best part about him! He wanted to put the giant ice cream statue on his head but he said it was too dirty.

The way home was chilly so the three of us wrapped our hotel towels around us and got plenty of stares haha. When we got back to the hotel we had another fun girls night and enjoyed the luxury of having wifi. I chatted with my Spanish friend Pachi and he wants to take me rock climbing!! Yikes! I’ll let you know if we go!

Ciao!

Katherina