Emily in Spain: Lagos, Portugal

I was feeling kind of sad about missing out on the best weekend at Bonas-- Spring Weekend. That was, until, I experienced my own Spring Weekend in Lagos, Portugal.

This picture above is from Saturday night. We watched the sunset at the "end of the world." It was pretty but SO windy up there! Pretty, and pretty chilly.

Friday night we spend the day at the beach after we arrived. We went out to dinner at a "Power Hour" restaurant with dinner and all-you-can-drink for 10 euros. Woo!

Then we went to Joe's Garage, the bar Discover Sevilla took us to. They gave you 5 drink tickets upon entering which could be used for beers, shots, or a large mixed drink. You can see which we chose!
Saturday we did one of the most fun things of the whole trip: the Bom Dia sangria grotto tour. We got onto this funky, cool sail boat around 3 p.m. and headed out to sea. The boat had cool music playing and bottomless cup sangria for the whole 2 hours! We sailed around the coast and then got into a smaller boat and toured the awesome grottos and little caves around the coastline! It was so much fun. After that we were able to swim out in the middle of the ocean! I was glad I had my bathing suit on and could do that. The water was cold but it was a once in a lifetime thing to do.

Me on the beach Saturday morning! Look at that blue water :).

My pictures got a little messed up here-- whoops!

That is one of the little caves that we toured around. We kept going in and out of different ones and it was just so awesome.

This is Megan and I on Friday afternoon, drinking sangria out on our porch! It was just me, Megan, and Kevin in our awesome hotel room. It had a bedroom, a living room with 2 couches, and a nice luxury kitchen! Plus we had a corner room so the balcony wrapped all the way around. So cool.

Bonas <3>

This trip was really SO much fun. I think it was one of the best parts of my studying abroad, actually! Everything was so relaxing and the Discover Sevilla guides really come to party, too. The whole thing felt like what I imagined spring break in Cancun would be like. Relaxing at the beach all day, having a good time at night! I am so glad that I got to do this all before I left Europe.

As for this week, I cannot believe it is my last week of classes! Next week is finals and Saturday I go HOME. Megan, Kevin and I have been making "bucket lists" for the things we need to do before we go home. We finished one and made another for finals week!

OH MAN and guess what?! You all remember Red Pants Man, right? Well, we heard from a previous study-abroader that Samantha Brown went to Sevilla and during her tour of the Parque Maria Louisa MET Red Pants and he told her (on her horse & buggy) his whole life story and then sang to her with his little guitar!!! I am praying that that re-run is on this summer when I am home. I would die. I encourage all of you to be on the lookout for it!

P.S.- As this semester winds down and I need to end my blogging soon, I am getting sad about finishing it! I know all of you only read it to read about my cool experiences over here, but I am thinking of making a new blog account just about my own, college-kid live. Any takers? Gimme your feedback! sorokeee@bonaventure.edu

Thanks for reading, everyone!

Happy Monday!