Today we woke up decently early and, upon recommendation by a beautiful bartender we made our way to the Belem area of Lisbon. Here we found a bunch of museums, the presidential palace and a number of beautiful parks. What the bartender did not tell us is that most museums are closed on Monday so we were forced to observe the majority of the museums from the outside, all of which were located in an enormous catholic cathedral. (pictured above)
We then made our way to one of the only museums open- the museum of modern art. Here we saw all sorts of works from a chandelier made entirely of tampons to huge works made entirely of plastic cutlery. Some of the exhibits were just bizarre, one which was by a French artist of course which contained a series of films are art work that were beyond description. For example on of the short films has a midget, a normal sized man, and 2 iguanas covered in oil and rolling around in flour. It appeared that this guy had been by our hostel and bought some of the drugs off of the locals. Once we got away from the French exhibits things got a little better. As we walked by some enormous bean bag creatures and into one of the coolest rooms we had ever seen. Inside the room it was completely dark and there was a huge maze of glowing light of plants, it was as close as any of us thought we would be to int he world of Avatar! Lauren was thrilled! I attempted to capture it on my camera but it was simply too dark to get a good image.
After the museum we hopped on the train and went to the town of Cascais where we sat on on of the most beautiful beached I have ever been to. The sand was very hot on the feet and quite fine. The beach was located in a cove so pat and i got a few climbs in, with the protection of the water below. we also jumped off a few of the rocks into the really cold water below, while Lauren watched us with the concern of a mother. The only topless European women were over the ago of 40.
When we returned from the beach we had one of "mamma's dinners" which for 8 euro included a three course meal and three drinks of our choice so obviously we were in! The meal was good and Lauren and I actually ate with the owner of this wonderful hostel. Lauren thought he was cute and even cuter when she learned he owned the place and was throwing some mad game at the 32 year old slampiece.
After dinner we spoke with a few people from the hostel and the bartender(Bruno) and another local guy offered to take us and a three Germans out for a drink.Laruen instantly fell in love with the curly haired bartender, two loves in one day, we seriously have 5 more weeks in europe we will see many loves of Lauren Day. We went to a bar where the offered mojitos for 7 euro that were insane. They literally poured about 2/3rds of a fifth of rum into the AMF sized drinks, no joke and we took our drinks to the street where everyone was drinking. It was honestly pretty crazy for a monday and we arrived back at the hostel around 4 am for a few more drinks. All of the Germans were extremely fun and goofy. The German guy loved America because we produced Girls Gone Wild and the German girls thought we were ignorant for not knowing where Angola is, wtf. The girls we also half Chinese so yet again Pat found someone to speak Chinese with! Both pairs of roommates we have had since we have been here have been Chinese , the grocery we go to is run by a Chinese family and now some of our friends our Chinese and Pat has seriously broke out his Chinese with all of them! Back at the hostel we got into a huge argument over whether Chuck Norris or David Hasselhof (sp) was a better cultural product, we won because Chuck Norris created the idea of a cultural product as well as all cultural products from for every country. We were supported by a designer from California who is on a European surfing trip (of course). He desgined hotwheels though, enough said.
Anyway it is about 1 pm our time and even pat isnt out of bed so we obviously had a great day yesterday.
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