Lost in Albufeira

10:00am - time for Sunday meeting! We had clear (yeah, clear) directions on how to get to the Kingdom Hall, just follow the road we came on and turn left then right. One problem was it was dark last night when we came, and evidently couldn’t remember anything along the way. We were lost. More than once. We did finally make it to meeting 35 minutes late.
I had expected more people who are learning English, like the English congregations in Brazil. But here its mostly native speakers from all over, like England, Switzerland, Germany, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Wales, and US. And how about the coincidence of the century: one of the girls at the meeting, Jess, lives in London, and said she will travel to the one and only, Recife Brazil in January for three months, to visit the English congregation in Boa Viagem! WOW! I was there! We’re getting together on Tuesday to show her the pictures I have on my laptop.
This afternoon we hit the grocery store, and then walked down to the beach. Oh it was a perfect day for it! But the wind was cool, and the water cold. We couldn’t help but squeal the first time it splashed us all unexpectedly. I’m sure this beach gets packed out in the summer, but it was almost dead now. Perfect for taking lots of pictures along our walk. What was neat was twice today we passed other Witnesses out walking around with some magazines in their bags. We stopped one couple to say hi. That will be us tomorrow!

Tonight we decided to make our own Mediterranean dinner - olives, goat cheese, quince jam & crackers to start. Then some wine with our baked pasta with ham and olives. Nicole made it, it was just wonderful. I love the food here! Then we had to have some dessert, so off to the grocery store we went, we had 8 minutes before they closed. We picked up some ice cream and chocolate - and let me tell you, it was the best 4 Euros we spent.

Let’s see what everyone’s favorite part of today was:

(Corey) I liked walking on the beach and seeing the cliffs.
(Lauren) Wandering around Albufeira, and hiding behind the bush at the Kingdom Hall as people passed.
(Nicole) I loved that my jeans got wet on the beach.

Nice. I think mine was popping the circuit breaker, twice in one evening. Only us!