are you lost??

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holla from portugal!
we are in the train station right now killing time while we wait for the train to take us from lisbon to faro. Lisbon is pretty gnarly. really cool things to see, good food, cheap wine, and its been hot and sunny everyday!
we arrived here from paris on the 26th and after about 12 hours of travel we found our hotel. we were able to get a room at the marriot...a 4 star hotel for 70 bucks a night!! so we enjoyed to lush comforts of a 4 star hotel while we were here. we were warmly greeted at the door of the hotel by the bellman after again, 12 hours of travel, of him looking at us with our bags and asking...´are you lost?´ how rude! oh well, we didnt look like the rest of the guests there thats for sure! anyways, we spent our first day in lisbon aboard the double decker bus with no roof and we took a bus tour of the city. we looked so lame. headphones in our ears, maps in our hands, camera around our necks, alls we needed was a pair of binoculars! but we got to see the city noneleless.
the next day, yesterday, we took a train to a small town called sintra. There is a royal palace there, a moorish castle, a private estate/mansion there and a whole bunch of map/camera/binocular wearing goofs just like us there, so needless to say we fit in just fine. we hiked up a mountain to get to the castle and the palace, it didnt look too far on the map, but took about an hour. straight up on a cobblestone street. our glutes are tender today.
so the other night we were enjoying a nice dinner on a patio/street when some jack ass selling fake flowers, plastic rings, sqweeking ducks, came up to our table and tried to get us to buy something. I politely said no, but then he kept taking out stuff that he wanted me to buy for kat. It was kinda amusing and everyone around was laughing so i played along and he then pulled out a zippo lighter and layed it on the table. it was glowing and he said just try it...just try it...you see it...now try it. i was afraid to touch anything considering the plastic rings he was trying to sell looked like a glittering ring they sell for the men in a sex shop...know what i mean...buyt to humor him i picked up the lighter and tried to light it. turns out the flippin lighter is charged with an electric current that felt like one of those electric fly swatter things...know what i mean? except i totally wasnt expecting the pain of the voltage running through my hands and my natural reaction was to throw it down and sure enough i spilled my glass of port all over kat. all over her sweater, her skirt...i was so pissed off. i wish i had taken that lighter and shoved it up his ass and seen what was funny now. i was so mad, so i had another glass of port and a couple beers...liquid therapy...and im ok now, but you get the picture.
the buildings in portugal are so beautful. covered in hand painted tiles, and some buildings are pink, or yellow, or green, or blue. It sometimes looks like a village made of clay! truly neat. the people are ok. i think the guys here like kat for her blue eyes and blonde hair, and i dont think the guys like me. always looking at me weird and being really short, oh well. liquid therapy...so yeah. and the people on the street come right up to me and ask if i want to buy hash, or marijuana, and even last night some dude made eye contact with me and rubbed his nose, asking if i wanted coke, i thought he was offering me a tissue, but then it all made sense.
so we are off to the algarve, on the south of portugal where everyone in europe vacations. supposed to be stunning. we are hoping to spend some time on the beach, maybe surf? i think the beaches are clothing optional so i might just hang out with my wangout...not sure yet...probably not, but knowing i can is kinda funny.

now for the queen...


Ah yes...the queen of my castle...i would howver like to make a public confession to all our family and friends...I, Katherine Laforet, am directionally challenged. I hate to admit it, but in light of recent events i think it needs to be said. Before we left for this trip i even insisted to Josh that we buy a compass to help us in our travelling endeavors. Soooo, we get off the underground metro in Lisbon at night so we have no idea direction we have come from or where we need to be...Josh says "Kat, lets try this way..." and i say "No Honey...i really think that we need to look at the compass..."...so i pull out the compass and figure that we were about to walk West...but i thinking that i am so brilliant with my compass say "Well, actually honey, this way is North..." and so he looks at me with a questioning, yet oh so patient look as to say, yeah so??? and i say "Well...i´m not really sure what that means but i REALLY think that we should go the other way..." - about 30 minutes later we arrive at the hotel after scaling a few hills on the side of the 3 lane highways which really, if walking the way Josh had originally said, we woulda make it in a comfortable 10 minutes...without the scaling of cliffs...so the moral of the story is..."Kat shut up and follow your husband". That´s all i have to say about that.

...and Josh says..

YA HEARD ME!

...she speaks...

Love you all and we look forward to getting some new pictures on here soon!!...I cant trust josh to upload the pictures by himself as the last time i stepped away for 5 minutes, he uploaded the pictures sideways and also managed to change the computers desktop picture to a picture of us...sideways..., meanwhile we cant figure out how to change it back because everything was in French...i mean a girl can only do so much!

xoxox

Kat and Josh...Portugese style...

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Comments

[Justin]

whats up guys, sounds like you are having a blast. I love the Laforet anger gene coming out on the dude in Portugal Josh it is not your fault for getting pissed off at the guy, it' your fathers. dude deffinitly go nude on the beach you aint going to get many chances to do that in a life time. it will be a good memory... for you not anyone else. just busting your balls dude. much love heading your way love Justin