A weekend in Portugal

                  (City of Obidós)

Saturday morning started a little later than normal. Breakfast at 8:30. Leave the hotel at 9:30. If you have never been to Europe before, you probably don't know much about European breakfast. I surely didn't. I filled a cup with cereal. Put milk on it as usual. What I didn't realize is that the milk was hot. After a bit of a shock of tasting warm milk, I actually liked the flavor of corn flakes in warm milk. It was a little like oatmeal.

We headed to the metro station after breakfast so we could get to a bus station out of town. The hour long bus ride through the Portuguese country side took us to Obidós. This city was great. The original wall still surrounds the city. 

There was also a midevil festival going on while we were in town. As we got there, we saw a procession of people. It did include a knight on a white horse. Sweet! 

We spent the day shopping and walki around te wall. Here are a couple views looking out from the wall. 

Sunday, we were able to attend a local church. It was cool to see what I could pick up as I listened to a language I couldn't understand. The part I thought was the best was how they celebrate birthdays in that church. If someone had a birthday during the past week, he or she would come to the front and have a song sung thanking God for that person. 

In the afternoon, we met with the other coaches that will be helping with the camp. I think there will be about 29 Americans helping operate the camp.  I am getting more excited for camp to start tomorrow! 

I will be helping with crafts this week. This means I have the opportunity to meet every kid at camp! Let the fun begin!!