After dancing the night away the night before, we got up at Joao's apartment at a decent hour and hopped in the car with him.  He told us he had to drive to Sintra (about 45 mins outside of Lisbon) to visit his uncle.  The drive was amazing and we stopped along the cliffs for some great pictures!

the gorgeous coast- reminded me of half-moon bay a bit

Joao's uncle's house is the house with the blue shudders (top left), kind of hard to see

On the balcony of Joao's uncle's house.

On the drive on the way back we stopped at Cabo da Roca- the most western point of Europe

Also on the way back to lisbon we stopped in a city called Bleim for these AMAZING pasteries...Pastéis de Belém- a creamy eggy custard with a crispy flaky crust, sprinkled with powerdered sugar and cinimmon... YUMMMMM

That night Joao dropped us off at a tram stop where we were to meet yet another host- who's name still remains somewhat of a mystery.  This really nice mystery man named something like "Muchacho" lol picked us up and walked us back to his appartment.  Due to the raging the night before and the long day at Sintra, Alex and I were exhausted and explained that we were planning to go strait to bed.  He showed us to our rooms and we instantly passed out!  We woke up early with plans to explore Lisbon!  We walked around the whole city and then decided to walk (for more than an hour due to a little mis-calculation of distance) in order to see this famed "Belem Tower."  After this treacherous walk...we finally found this cool but super tiny castle...I thought it was a joke...

 After a very long day, we returned to Munchindo's house to cook dinner and went out for a little bit.  We ended up meeting with our previous host Joao again! fun fun!  Our last day in Lisbon was spent in Sintra, the same city Joao drove us through.  We weren't able to see the famous Pena Palace which was def worth the trip back to the city- Alex and I like to call it the technicolored castle

Its hard to tell but the castle is seriously on the very tipy-top of this forest-y city

 

pretty sweet

 After spending all day in Sintra, we returned back to Muchasa's (yes I'm changing his name every time).  We packed up our stuff and planned our day trip to Lagos on our way to Albufeira! 

Super cool looking train station in Lisbon- the next pic is Alex giving me a funny look because we are of course over an hour early for our train...but HEY we had time to eat breakfast and chase around some ugly pigeons lol

Goodbye Lisbon...hello BEACHES and TAN LINES!!! : )