Heading Home!

We're heading home tomorrow. It's really been a great couple weeks. LS got to enjoy time with so many of her friends, cousins, aunts, uncles, and her grandfather too. Too many good times to be able to recount and do it any justice. Hopefully during tomorrow's travels we'll be able to look as happy as we did here at the beginning of the trip!



A story from today definitely sums up how LS's Portuguese has progressed while we've been here. We went to have pizza for lunch today and at the restaurant there was a TV. Actually, this story also points out how we don't have a TV...

Suddenly LS points to the TV and says "Isso é um computador sem teclas". Which means "That is a computer without a keyboard". Too funny. She's used to seeing images on Youtube or Skype on Papai's computer, so that is her point of reference.

Well, ready or not U.S.A., here she comes. We'll miss you Portugal (but we'll be back)!

Janela (Window)

The house in Portugal that is in Mamãe's Father's side of the family has a wonderful window, that LS is just perfect for. The exterior walls of the house are about a meter thick, an aspect that keeps the interior comfortable in the cooler weather as well as the hot summer.

The house is reportedly around 300 years old. Its thick walls also came in handy as fortification when the house quartered an officer in the Portuguese military when they were fighting off the invasion of Napoleon off the nearby coast.

LS provides the perfect guage to measure this window by. It makes me jealous for being the size that she is! I've always loved this window (which is in the dining room), and these pictures just make me love it more.



Do you think she's having a good time?



As an aside, it also amazes me that within these thick walls I get a multi-megabit mobile broadband signal in order to access the Internet. Oh the things this house has seen...

Our Little Terror

We're at the beginning of a trip off to visit family in Portugal. Just had to share the fact that our little terror was made to take off her shoes before going through security. Yep, our 23 month old. I'm sure everyone feels a lot safer now. But anyway, we're through and waiting to take off. Having some fun roaming around the airport!