Small world...

Yesterday we went to the beach. We took a ferry to Farol Island 30 minutes off the coast. We got drinks at a beachside bar, laid out, and went swimming. It was great. After a while, Elyse had to go back and sit in the shade. Michelle and I waited for Carina to come back from her walk. After an hour and a half, we got kinda worried. I went down the beach to go find her and ended up finding her on the way back. At this point, we realized it was probably a bad idea not to bring phones with us…

We came back to the hotel to shower and get some dinner. The guy who owns the hotel is from Seekonk, MA. He used to do construction at RWU and RISD; small world! He was really nice and suggested a pizza place. We got so much food for 15 euro!

This morning we went to Vilamora, which is similar to Marina Bay in Quincy. It’s definitely the richer part of this coast. We took the bus there and got on a boat to do a 4 hour tour of the rocks and caves. It was a long and choppy boat ride to the caves. There we took a dinghy to the caves, but it was too rough to go through them. We thought we were going to fall off the dinghy, but it was actually really fun. We got back to the boat and had a small lunch on the way back and ended up taking a taxi back to Faro. We got McDonald’s for dinner. That’s the first time we’ve had American food since we’ve been here and it was really only out of convenience.

Right now, Michelle and I are camped out in the hotel lobby, waiting for our bus. It’s not until 1:15am and it is currently 11:15. I’d like to add that I still feel as if I’m on a boat 5 hours after getting on land.

It’s crazy to think that we go home in a week. We have 4 nights at our host home and 2 in a hotel. I cannot believe how quickly the past 5 weeks went by!