What's all the Racklet?

It’s a rainy morning. Again.

One of our new favorite people - Doug - gave the talk this morning. This is our last meeting with the Albufeira congregation! They all said they’d love to have us back again…. Hmm…..

After a spot of lunch (cleaned up the remnants of food, like cheese, and ice cream) we drove West to Lagos, to catch a boat tour of the grottoes along the rocky coast. I got to use my Portuguese (I think it was somewhat lame after a weekend of Spanish corruption) to ask for directions to the right beach - Praia Dona Ana. We were the only ones there! And actually, no boaters in sight, just a fisherman. So we just explored a little, the view is spectacular! Its funny, the fisherman was watching us the whole time, and others too. I don’t know what it is with us, or if its just Portuguese, but people stare

Since we came via the highway (or motorway to the English here…) we took the scenic way home. And Corey was co-pilot and tends to trust GPS to a fault, and we were ended up on some tiny back street, which turned into a dirt road, then a dirt path with terrible ruts, and then pretty much a field, and wouldn’t you know, it came back to pavement and we were just one round-about from our apartment!

Now we are at Peter & Anna’s house for the evening - I made some “rice-krispie” cookies, Portugal style. The bag of marshmallows were half strawberry flavor, and I picked out a fun chocolate, star-shaped cereal. We wanted to make them an American dessert, but go figure, we couldn’t really find the ingredients for cheesecake or pumpkin pie. For dinner we had racklet - put some boiled potatoes on your plate, then grill some yummy things for on top - like cheese, bacon, onions, olives, etc. Its a special grill thing and everyone has their own try to make whatever they want!

And, our car has bit the dust. It won't start, and we're waiting for a taxi now. Hopefully we'll have a new car by the morning.

What do you all have to say?

(Lauren) Watchtower, right??
(Nicole) Pass me the paprika, please.
(Corey) Skype me when you're sober.
(Anna) Pass me the gherkins.
(Peter) Ahh, don't scrape the pans!!
(Lauren) If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.