Coimbra

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Last week the girls started a 2 week Spring Break! WhooHoo! Mark and I both had Tuesday off as well so we decided to take a day trip a couple hours North of Lisbon. The city is called Coimbra and is famous for the really old University that is in the city. We did see a little of the University but we really went for Portugal dos Pequenitos (Little ones Portugal). It is a little city for kids... it has monuments (kid sized, of course) that have parts of famous monuments from all of the city. For example, there was a Lisbon monuments and it has small sized replicas of about 7 different monuments in Lisbon. There are also area with information and things from all the places that Portugal had colonies. And the girls favorite part was an area with typical Portuguese houses from all over the country. Portugal is a small sized country as far as land goes but every region is very distinct. The kids could touch, climb on and play in every thing, they loved it!

After we spent several hours playing we left small land and spent some time seeing the city of Coimbra. It is a very old city, with lots of history most of it surrounding the university. We had dinner at a little cafe that sits next to a very old church that holds the tombs of the first 2 kings of Portugal. It was all closed up for renovations so we couldn't go in and see the tombs.

We are now happily ALL enjoying some Spring Break time... relaxing! We went to the beach on Sunday afternoon, it was a little cool because of the wind but we had a fun picnic and the girls played for hours in the sand. We have a couple more day trips planned for later this week and I need to get some buttons on some new Easter dresses before Sunday:)