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Tuesday, January 16, 2023 Keith wasn’t feeling great yesterday, so we sat and watched TV all day. It was pretty great. We binged the entire first season of The Bear, and started on season 2. It makes you want to cook, so I cooked dinner. Keith was sick in bed all day today, aching all […]

Monday, January 15, 2024 Keith is good at a lot of things. One thing that most people do not know he excels at is guessing the weight of pigs. Didn’t see that one coming, did you? But it’s true. It somehow came up in conversation before he ever demonstrated it in person – which makes

Sunday, January 14, 2024 The guidelines always say to be at the airport three hours before an international flight, so I thought if we were there almost two hours early, it would be good. We had a nice hotel breakfast 45 minutes before it was supposed to be set up and called an Uber. It

Saturday, January 13, 2024 I didn’t know anything about today’s tour, other than the places were pretty far from Lisbon. It’s kinda fun to just have the day unfold. Everything is interesting, afterall. Fátima is the site where three kids (Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco) saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary multiple times in 1917 (on

Friday, January 12, 2024 The pillows of Porto are very squishy. They are very large when plumped up, but when you lean on them (or sleep on them) they squish waaaay down. It’s kinda like an inflatable with a slow leak. They also do amazing things to my hair. The first night when I got

Thursday, January 11, 2023 We chatted up some people at breakfast. They were from Door country, with two kids in college at the U of Mn and one at Eau Claire. Small world. We waited outside our hotel for our tour pick up today. The van was almost 20 minutes late and we were just

Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Oh, Bruno and Manuel, where fore art thou? Our tour guide, Isabel, was not quite up to the standard we have gotten used to. Our “small group” Porto city tour was 20ish people, a group of 7 of which spoke Spanish. I have never been on a bilingual tour before, and

Tuesday, January 9, 2023 I have asked if it is Tuesday nine or ten times today, because I cannot imagine that we only arrived in Portugal two days ago. It feels like weeks. We have really enjoyed our hotel. The people have been very, very nice. Bruna at the desk has been very attentive and

Monday, January 8, 2023 We officially went to bed about 8pm last night, but I briefly fell asleep a number of times trying to type, then just zonked out on the keyboard at the end. We were both SOUNDLY sleeping when my alarm went off at 11:05 pm. AAUUUGGHH. Apparently, I set an alarm for

Sunday, January 7, 2023 We slept a couple times for 15-20 minutes. It was not a restful night flight, but it wasn’t expected to be. Our driver, Victor, picked us up and drove us to our rho===== Oh. I just fell asleep there and ended up with some equal signs. There were a bunch more,