Guess I should start with yesterday, since I was way too exhausted to type. Eders and I both collapsed in the bean bags which the hostel generously provided for us young student travelers. They must have not thought about the out-of-shape-Americans who would have difficulty getting out of the bean bags half an hour later after a full day of hiking the hilly streets of Lisbon. (Had a great skype sesh while on our bean bags.. shout out to the Guat.) We had hiked up to the Castilo de Jorge- translation= St. George's Castle. Really awesome views and definitely worth the hike up there. The little area, the Alfama, has the most amazing, views, food, wine, service. An absolutely fantastic dinner at The Chapito. We both started out with glasses of wine: a rose and a green wine! Yeah that's right. A green wine. It was pretty tasty.. similar to a champagne. I ordered the beef which was from South America (but a Portugese delicacy) while Edith had the most delicious duck I've ever had. And then we had a traditional Portugese dessert- translation in America: creme brulee with a softer consistency. I think I'll try the chocolate tarte next time I'm in Lisbon :)
Today. Well, today we had a brilliant idea. Simply brilliant. One word: vespa. What better way to see absolutely everything two college students looking through picture tourism maps pick out to jam into one days worth of traveling? Hello... a vespa! A little shaky at first. I mean I pretended to be a pro when the lady asked us if we were all set with running it "Psshh. Oh yeah, I know. We're fine." And then Edes saying "Well, yeah.. maybe you could give us a little reminder. You know, because every vespa's different". Nice catch Edes. We still broke down and had to push it back to the store to find out we weren't turning it on correctly. Overall, worked out great. I got pulled over by a van of four policia in a van (whom I thought were just waving at us.. but were really us yelling at us to pull over). Just checking to make sure I had a drivers license (apparently loads of people here drive without one). Check! Fooled all four of them as the gathered around us on the side of the highway. Would have made a great picture- 4 Portugese police standing around 2 American girls on a vespa. Unfortunately, that was not our only encounter with the policia de lisboa- just the most interaction with. Edes had accidentally drove into a bus lane only where the trolleys go. With the police blowing there whistles and yelling at us, Edie continued driving, only to cut one of the trolleys off. Needless to say we avoided driving down that street again.
I most likely should be sleeping. But I'm thinking the 9 desserts Edes and I just had is keeping me awake. After our Petiscos here at the house, we decided we both needed a little something sweet. Even on the vespa we still did a TON of walking, therefore we earned it. I'm not quite sure we earned all 9, but we were committed once we had the first 4. So it's going to be a close call Jill. If you had asked me 3 hours ago I would have said I would be coming home so skinny you wouldn't be able to recognize me.. but I think I'm leveling it off with the desserts. I of course want you to still be able to recognize me. So we journeyed out to the streets of Lisbon to go Bakery hopping. Yes that's right, bakery hopping. Like bar hopping, but much tastier. The gelado guy was by far the nicest. He started giving us samples, and then said "one more". So I asked "one more each? or one more total?" "Hmm. You can just try them all!" (I really liked him :) We then had to buy a cone since he went to all that hard work scooping out a sample of each one. No wonder Americans have such a fat ass reputation. We only solidified this fact tonight. Sorry everyone!
Lagos tomorrow! Stay tuned!
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