Portugal was really great! Let me tell why. First of all, it made it a thousand times more enjoyable that we were able to stay with a missionary couple. Not a hostel. I'm so sick of hostels. Elder and Sister Lund were so good to us. Too good. When we got off the plane at around 8 at night, she had spaghetti, salad, and different breads waiting for us. It tasted soooo good. American food! She made us dinner every night, even though they were off doing missionary stuff! She'd put something in the crock pot for us to eat. It was so nice and saved us money.
Secondly, Taylor (Camilia's fiance) is living there this semester and he took us around. It was so nice to just follow someone who knew what he was doing. To not have to plan out routes and metro stops was nice!
Here we are eating after we got in that first night. Their apartment was huge. It was a whole floor of a building. There were enough beds for all of us except one. So I volunteered to sleep on the couch, which was actually very comfortable to me.
The next day (our first full day) we went to Sintra, a town a little north west of Lisbon. We rode a bus up a mountain to see ruins of an old Moorish castle. There was also a palace up the mountain that looked like a Disney castle. It was one of the coolest palaces I've been to.
There was a beautiful view of Sintra and the ocean.
Then we just wandered around the city a bit. Portugal is famous for its painted tiles, it's on all of the buildings and it's so pretty. The sidewalks and squares also had cool mosaic stone patterns, as seen below.
Sorry for some of the weirdly lightened pictures. A lot of them turned out dark for some reason. I also didn't bring my nice SLR cause I was just sick of carrying it around. My other camera takes duller photos I think. But luckily my phone takes more vibrant pictures. Wow, that makes me sound ridiculous.
Pigeons just really love this monument!
View from a really big old elevator we rode. I loved all the orange house tops. So pretty, and it felt so Portugal to me! Fun to be somewhere with so much warmth and color.
Lisbon also has cool old trolleys. We rode one. The elevator and the trolley both came included on our metro pass. Score!
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