Lisbon Day 3

Today we went to the Castle of Saint Jorge which is at the top of a hill by our hostel. The walk was pretty nice and the castle was pretty cool. The castle cost 5 euro to get in so of course we didn’t actually go in so we walked around it and snapped a few pictures. I also tried my first Portuguese cheeseburger at a little shop in the area surrounding the castle. It was kind of funny because when the owner gave me the sandwich the whole bar watched as I took my first bite to see what the American thought of their burger, it was solid. The area surrounding the castle was straight out of a picture book with cobble stone streets and closely packed houses. Portuguese people were clearly very small at the time they were built because I don’t think the doorways were taller than 6 foot , so we all looked enormous next to the doors.

We then decided we wanted to go check out the aquarium so we hopped on a bus which we knew went to the aquarium, little did we know we were hopping on a regular city bus, which made frequent stops, needless to say we were the only tourists on the bus. We reached a stop that Pat thought was the correct stop for some reason and he quickly rushed us off of the bus. Pat still isnt sure where our hostel is located, I don’t know why we thought he knew where he was on this occasion. The other riders of the bus must have been very confused or very amused by the fact that we got off at this stop because we got off at the bus station for the whole city in the middle of a low income housing area. We were literally where they park the busses at night and an hour walk from the aquarium. We walked a few blocks to another bus station where we caught a bus back home. Pat got kicked out of his seat by some old lady who didn’t want him sitting next to her apparently, probably due to his Touristy Turkish Festival hat.

We had another dinner back at the Hostel made by Momma, who loves Lauren Day, probably because her son is in love and was talking all about his American love to her. She literally only asked for Lauren Day’s name and consistently winking at her, Andre is making moves. We met some people from Minnesota, Australia, Germany, Michigan and Scotland and introduced some people to kings. We gave a couple of our new friends from Australia the low down on how the Greek System works. Given the fact that we went out the night before we instantly became the experts on night life in Lisbon so we made our way back to the bar where they make the monster Mojitos and enjoyed another night out in Lisbon and Luaren Day found another love, this time an American who just launched an Iphone app, go download it! It is finger twist or something like that and only costs a buck! Get it while it is hot!