Tapas y Lagos

Well, this weekend was a little bit crazy and a whole lot of awesome.

Thursday night (good to know that some things don´t change all the much from home. My weekend still starts on Thursday nights) we went out of tapas in a group. Every week we´re going to different neighborhoods to experience different parts of Sevilla. Anyway, the first restaurant we went to, one of the dishes we ordered was Octapus. It actually wasn´t terrible, I just refused to eat a part that had anything that resembled suction things.

It was also my friend Marissa´s birthday so we definitely celebrated that on Thursday night as well.

Friday morning we somehow managed to drag ourselves out of bed and get to the bus for the ride to Portugal. It was only about a 3 hour ride there and I slept for most of the time.

When we got therem we checked into our hostel, which was amazing. I´ve stayed in crappier hotels before. But we immediately headed out to the beach, which was gorgeous. I probably posted way too many pictures on facebook but it´s just that gorgeous. But I had a blast in the water once I got used to the cold. We swam out to a giant rock on the first day and I pretty much managed to beat myself up that first day because my arm and leg are bruised and cut, but it was worth it.

Then we went back to the harbor and got on a boat that was taking us out to see comes caves farther away from shore. I was having a blast on the boat. Normally I actually like the choppiness of the water, but apparently mixing that with the free sangria was a bad idea because a lot of us got sick.

For dinner that night a small group of us went out in search of some good Portuguese food. I wound up with fish and chips, but it was delicious.

A few of us skipped going to the beach the next day, me included because of sunburn (surprise surprise) so we walked around town and did some shopping and I finally got a burger for lunch. I also had my first experience with indian food and I loved it. That night we went around town and explored some of the bars. The nice thing about Lagos is that it´s a tourist town so there were a lot of people that spoke English.

We spent our third and final day at the beach. I got to sit down and enjoy sitting in the shade (while wearing long jeans and tennis shoes that I´m sure got me lots of strange looks, but I didn´t care) and reading my book and taking more cool pictures.