Day 5: Lisbon

Traveling can really be draining.  This morning we got up really early to catch our train to Lisbon.  We had to get a taxi because the metro only starts to run at 6am and it wouldn't get us to the train station on time.  Thankfully the hotel understood what we wanted and at 6:00 we were on our way to the train station. It was only about a 3 hour train trip but still I didn't get any sleep and through that I would be fine.  After all I spend most of the year getting up super early to go to work so why should this situation be any different.  We met Kaija's boyfriend at the train station  and he helped us navigate through everything and helped us find our hotel.  We weren't able to get into our room because check in only starts at 2 but we left our bags and began to wander around the city.  And good gosh does this city have hills!  We walked all the day down to the water front and then slowly worked our way up to find something to eat.  With food in our stomach and sangria to wash it all down, we were all starting to feel a little better. The only weird part about the sangria was that it had these little pieces of anis in them which gave it a slight licorice taste but Kaija and I quickly fished those out of our glasses and disposed of them into the bushes. But this time it was past 2:00 and we would be able to get into our room, so we made our way to the metro to get back up to our hotel.  There was no way we were going to walk all the way back up those hills, even after eating.  We got into the room and slowly started to get cleaned up.  Even after being clean we were still tired and proceeded to have a siesta.   Later in the evening we headed out to wander a little more around our area.  We found a food store to get some snacks.  We got a recommendation from the hotel of where to go to eat so we also found that place.  It was hard at first because they didn't have a menu in English but the owner was very helpful and he translated everything for us.  Some of the words he had to look up but he was very forthcoming to help us.  And the food was amazing.  This place is known for it's authentic Portuguese food.  Very simple food but filled with flavors.  By the end of the meal we were stuffed and came back to the room to pass out because of all the food we ate and from the long day of travel.  Tomorrow we are ready for touring around Lisbon.