Aug. 27- Day 58

We are having a very fun last few days. We decided to embrace the city and spend our time seeing the sights , eating the food and at the same time resting. We know that when we get home we will hit the ground running and we will be 6 hours behind.
We bought a 24 hour trolley, metro, bus pass today so we felt free to travel around the city jumping on and off the local transportation as much as we wanted to. We first went by metro (subway) to a large shopping mall at the top of a hill and walked along a park downhill. We had pizza for lunch beside a little green area. Colton woke up with an ear ache todday and after lunch was not feeling very good so Colton, Erin and I headed back to the hostel for a much needed nap.
We have been having some very short nights recently because of city noise, heat and mosquitoes in our room. Miranda and Dean headed by themselves in a different direction for the afternoon for a little daddy/daughter time.
The markets are filled with all sorts of fresh vegi's, fruits and sea food. We picked up some produce for our supper here.

We fell in love with fresh mint in Morocco and had to make some mint tea and used it in our thai peanut sauce at supper.

Miranda thought the snails did not look appetizing. But many people use them to make soup.

Dean can't resist buying fresh olives whereever we see them. He has tried them all over Europe.

Many of the little shops sell in bulk whatever you would like.

Here is a typical picture of us trying to figure our where we should go next. Dean and Erin both have a map and I stay out of it.

We stopped for lunch yesterday in a little shop and had a tart and some fruit. portugal is famous for their tarts. We have really enjoyed buying them in tiny shops as we walk around exploring the city.

Here are Dean and Miranda on their date. They where shopping and the rest of us where sleeping.

They found a high end tack shop and checked out the saddles and briddles

When they got back from their shopping day, Erin, Colton and I were rested and ready to explore some more. We walked a bit and jumped on a trolley headed for somewhere and ended up next to a Hagen Daaz shop and HAD to have a pre-supper snack. After we were all trolleyed out we headed back for a supper of Chicken fryed rice at our hostel. Mmm

All in all we had an awsome day