Porto, Portugal

 On Sunday, we bought hop on hop off bus tickets which included a Port Wine Cave Tour.  

 It turns out that we were the only ones during our tour.  

 It worked out perfectly for us because our tour guide took the boys around and showed them barrels with wine from their birth year.  

 The boys were excellent on the tour!

 Next, we jumped on the bus and started our city tour!  

 Link was not happy with the headphones!  He just enjoyed the scenery.

 Porto is known for their blue tiles on the outside of many buildings.  

The blue tiles were even in the train station.  They were beautiful. 

 Clean laundry, a Portugal flag, and a picture of Jesus!  I love it!

 Our tour also included a river boat tour.   

 We drove and walked down this street a few times.  There was a little old man in the window that waved at Link.  Link looked for him each time we went down the street. 

 He was there at the window each time.

 We ended the night at a nice restaurant called Book.  The menu and the bill were presented in books.

This guy loved the restaurant.  He tried everything and he even charmed the waiter into bringing him more of the appetizer!  He even tried salmon mousse and olive tapenade. The boys had a trio of burger patties.  Link ate all three (chicken curry, pork and onions, and a traditional cheese burger.) Ethan tried them, but didn't finish.  This was the first time we have taken boys to a really nice restaurant.  They were great!  It's nice to know we can do this more often!

Porto was a hit!  We loved it!

Portugal Beach Day

We hit the Espinho Beach in Portugal on Saturday morning.

 We realized on our way to the airport that I forgot the swimsuits!  

Thankfully, we found a Disney store near our hotel and we grabbed suits for the boys!

 We thought we would have about two hours of beach time before the rain hit!  

Boy were we wrong!  The weather was fantastic all day!

 The weather was overcast, but the temperature was just right!

 The fellas played hard!  

 They also were loving having their daddy with them all day!

 The Atlantic Ocean from the other side of the ocean!!

 The beach was made of teeny tiny rocks!  It was so easy to brush off before getting into our rental car!

 We had an awesome morning!  We stopped mid-afternoon to get some lunch.  We had one mishap!  Ethan accidentally slammed Link's finger into the car door.  Nate and I both panicked and had no clue what to do!  Thankfully, it happened right in front of a little cafe.  The workers rushed out (Link was screaming his head off).  They had ice and a first aid kit!  Since Nate and I were in panic mode, they cleaned his finger up and put a bandaid on it.  After a few minutes, we noticed it was fine and we didn't need any medication attention.  We were able to grab some lunch (Link slept in my lap for 45 minutes) and then head back to the beach!  It rattled all of us.  Poor Ethan felt horrible!!!  Besides that little adventure, we had a great time!  

 This is the cafe where the workers rushed out! 

We got to our hotel that evening and took showers.  We realized none of us put enough sunscreen on.  We all thought we would be there long and we forgot with the overcast skies to reapply the sunscreen!  Thank goodness for aloe!