Our Email Trip to Portugal

We just got home from a fantastic trip to Portugal. Lulu was invited by the Ministry of Education to be a guest speaker. They had been using her book to set up a model evaluating system of school libraries and someone suggested they go right to the source. At first we were skeptical - but everything turned out wonderfully. They had translators and earpieces so everyone was on the same wavelength. Since every student in Portugal studies English - it was second nature to them.

We had great flights - stayed at a very nice hotel - and ate way too much good food. Portugal is a big producer of sugar and they aren't afraid to use it in their cooking. It was hard to find a restaurant that displayed fake sugar sweeteners. The hot chocolate was fantastic - you could almost stand your spoon up in it. The national bird is a small custard tart called a pasteis.

On the way over to Europe and on the way back - we were able to visit our grandson in Syracuse - but that is another story.

Our plane got to town about midnight and we are still a little jet-lagged - but the memories of this trip will linger a long time.

Enjoy the slide show above. I had to whittle 250 pictures down to 66.