lagos, portugal

Here it is...the last trip before leaving Sevilla, the last weekend everyone was still here, last weekend before finals...and we went to Lagos and had a blast!!!! We may or may not have had the best most relaxing weekend ever.

On Friday morning we took a bus at 9 am to head to Lagos. When we got there, we first got to climb on the rocks and had a great first view of Lagos:

We could even crawl in that little cave down in the bottom and got really excited to find out we could take boat rides through the grotto later that weekend!

 So lets just say this whole trip was full of beautiful beach views! Pictures didn't even do it justice. Later that day, we laid out at this beach and there was a big rock in the middle that people that wanted to brave the freezing water could cliff jump off of.

first beach we laid out at

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At sunset they took us to "the end of the world" which is a big cliff that leads off into the river.  Well, there wasn't really much of a sunset because I think we were pretty early and it was also cloudy, but that didn't stop us from taking lots of pictures!!

After that we went to have some Chinese food for dinner and our server was sooo sweet-when we asked if we could order something she always said "Yes please!" Our trip gave us tickets to go to a clubish thing that night so we went for a little and then got back to our hotel.  The next day we went to a much bigger beach, and this day was super fun! We did this little thing called "sangria boat" where we got free sangria the whole time and they took us out on the ocean, and then on a smaller boat through the grottos! We basically spent all day on the beach/water and even swam in the freezing water but it was worth it!! 

sangria boat!!!!

View from the grotto tour

For dinner we went and had some of the best burgers ever at Nahnahbrah and tried one that had made it onto some famous burger list. Pretty tasty :) We had big plans to go out that night, but ended up taking a glorious nap, waking up at 12:45 and watched the boogeyman with our leftovers and chocolate...success! Then we went to bed for real because we had a long day ahead! 

We woke up and ...went to the beach again! Same one as the first day and stayed until it was time to go.  Luckily all our hotels served tons of bread, meat, and cheese during our breakfast buffet so we all sneakily made a couple sandwiches to take to the beach with us for lunch.  

So basically, a great last weekend! Although it made for a couple of late nights of studying during finals week, it was definitely worth it! :) I had so much fun with everyone, and I already miss our study abroad group so much!