09/23/2008

This is a picture of our beach from above and the rock nearest to us is the one i jumped off of!!
Below is the sailboat we were on and Mike is the one standing on the dock on the right.
here are the caves we went in.

Lagos Portugal...What a beautiful place. We couldn’t have asked for better weather. This was a relief because it said it was supposed to rain while we were there but it only sprinkled a little in the mornings. It ended up being hot and sunny, the skies were crystal clear and so was the water. The hotel was right on the beach so it was just a short walk to where we spent most of our time.

The first night everyone went out on the town. On these trips they plan for us to go to certain bars at night, they always take us to touristy bars that are just like the ones in America...lame....but its probably because at these bars, the young guys we are with can be obnoxious assholes without pissing off the locals. When I am in Sevilla I only go out with my host sisters and I feel like I am truly experiencing what I should be here. I don’t go out with the big groups of Americans from school anymore, I figure im only in Spain for a short time and how often am I going to be able to shoot the shit with people actually from Spain, and talk in the language with them? Probably never again.

The next day we spent the morning at the beach and then had a two-hour sail boat trip planned. The sailboat took us out to these caves that were so cool. Groups took turns getting into a smaller boat that took us into these rock caves. While each group was out on the smaller boats we got to drink Sangria, lie in the sun, and jump off the sailboat. Afterwards they took us to a different beach that was a lot bigger than the one in front of our hotel and there were no rocks, it was just ocean for as far as the eye could see. We had a soccer game on the sand and played beach volleyball also.

That night they took us on a 30 minute bus ride to a place that was thought to be the end of the world by early exploeres before the Americas was discovered. It was a huge cliff off the Ocean where we sat and watched the sun set. It was very peaceful. Afterwards they took us to the center of town to go to another bar, basically the same story as the night before until I ran into one of the boys that had been working on the sailboat that day. His name was Mike and he was from Portugal but had lived in England for a good amount of time so he had a thick British accent (very cute). He went with me to the bar they took us to and then we left to this bar that his best friends parents owned and we played pool and got free drinks all night. Afterwards he bought my cab back to my hotel. Alone, I promise ;) And anyways it was really a great time.

At the beach near our hotel the next day there was a huge rock and when the tide was up I actually got the guts to climb up it and jump off. I was really scared and it took me a good 7-10 minutes of sitting up there before I jumped haha…typical Bethany..then I had to climb back up so I could jump one more time before we had to leave back to Spain. The trip was very fun.