Last Monday

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Last Monday we took some new friends to visit Sintra. It was a gorgeous day! Sunny, warm... it was a holiday from school- wonderful! We had the day off as part of the Carnaval holiday so the girls were all dresses up to celebrate. From Friday to Tuesday we saw kids dressed up everywhere we went- the girls loved it and were dresses up just about every time we left the house.

We took them to Sintra and then visited a Palace that is in the middle of the city. The huge kitchen stacks make it very distinctive so it was cool to see them from the inside as well. After the palace we headed to lunch. We went to a little pastry shop that is famous for some of its distinct treats. We made ourselves eat a sandwich before we all sampled the goods:)

After lunch the girls really wanted to ride the train that goes through the town. We thought it would be fun so we hopped on... it wasn't really the exciting, historical ride we were thinking it would be but the girls loved being on the train anyways...

The day was so beautiful that we decided to try to go to Cabo da Roca, it is the Western most part of continental Europe- and it is amazingly beautiful. We had driven up there one other time but it was so windy and started raining when we got there so we didn't even get out of the car. But this was was perfect and there wasn't even a breeze. We were able to enjoy the scenery, walk around and even enjoyed some ice cream.

On the way home we past a beach that normally is so windy you can even get out of the car... today calm. So we couldn't pass up the chance and out we jumped to walk on the sand. You can problay guess what happens next... three little girls, all dressed up like princesses and butterflies- the beach, the water= 3 little wet dressed up girls!:)

And with Bria's face first fall into a wave... we headed home. :)