It's taking me forever to get through the posts about our trip, but I'm motivated to document them here before we start to forget some of the details of it. This is the last of the posts on Portugal!
November 1-2, 2016
(these pictures were taken at two different beaches--Praia Grande and some other I'm not sure the name of)
The weather was so warm and pleasant while we were there, that we decided to visit the beach!
Although a lovely day, it was November and a tad too cold for full blown swimming, so the kids mostly played in the sand...
Spence found some cool rocks to climb and believe me when I say that these were some very sharp rocks. I won't lie and say that I didn't feel a tad nervous about him scaling to his precarious position across the jagged rocks, but he made it up and down without incident, so all's well that ends well!
After exploring the beach for a while, we discovered a steep set of stairs that beckoned for us to climb them!
It was worth every step of the steep climb!
was that I couldn't make my camera capture the full measure of the beauty we experienced there.
We'd loved so much of our time in Portugal and this day hiking and exploring at the beach, was a perfect capstone to a perfect week! This is exactly why I love to travel!
Eventually the time came to say goodbye to the beach and head back to the villa. On our way home, we stopped in a cute little port town called, Cascais.
The next day, we just packed up our belongings...
practiced our braiding....
November 1-2, 2016
(these pictures were taken at two different beaches--Praia Grande and some other I'm not sure the name of)
The weather was so warm and pleasant while we were there, that we decided to visit the beach!
and just dipped their toes into the water. We figured out that we were pretty close to directly across the Atlantic Ocean from home there on the beach in Portugal, so we made sure to wave to our friends across the way!
Spence found some cool rocks to climb and believe me when I say that these were some very sharp rocks. I won't lie and say that I didn't feel a tad nervous about him scaling to his precarious position across the jagged rocks, but he made it up and down without incident, so all's well that ends well!
We climbed and discovered along the way that there was some well preserved fossilized dinosaur footprints along the cliff wall. Apparently about 60 of them. (Click here if you want to read more details)
We admired those for a bit and pondered on how there were footprints on the side of a sheer vertical cliff, but really just couldn't wait to get to the top, so we could take advantage of these amazing views overlooking the beach!
Wow, wow, wow!
It was worth every step of the steep climb!
Hiking and exploring are two of my favorite things to do in any circumstance, but doing them in a beautiful foreign land alongside people I love is pretty much what Lara dreams are made of!
My only disappointment with it all....
That little hike was not all that strenuous, but it was like a salve to my soul. I wanted to absorb that serene beauty right into my body and take it home with me.
We'd loved so much of our time in Portugal and this day hiking and exploring at the beach, was a perfect capstone to a perfect week! This is exactly why I love to travel!
Eventually the time came to say goodbye to the beach and head back to the villa. On our way home, we stopped in a cute little port town called, Cascais.
We didn't really have a plan while we were there, but enjoyed wandering around for a while....
and especially loved this little town square with its patterned cobblestone.
practiced our braiding....
loved on baby Ben (even though he pickpocketed Spence earlier in the week) 😂...
took a few more group pictures...
and got another picture with my Emma girl...
And then headed to the airport...
where Matt's family and Emma headed back to England and Spence, Adam, Kristina, and I took off for Spain!
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