Cats, dogs and gals

Hellooo readers! (If we have any..)

It SUCKS that we cant update every day. The internet connection at our hotel truly sucks, not to mention the stone age computers they have for using it. There is no wlan available, and we're just too lazy to spend any time in internet cafes when there's so much else to do.

Today we woke up at 6am with Aija, cause we wanted to go down to the harbour and take some photos of the fishermen. After walking thru the town and feeding a few stray dogs on our way we arrived at the harbour and realized we prob weren't allowed to enter the area we wanted to. There was a gate and some portuguese signs to keep us out. Too bad!! Also, the boats just aren't the same as almost 20 years ago. The lovely wooden, colorful old boats are gone, and they're all using the boring (but no doubt, more efficient) modern boats these days. Aww!

After that we took a short walk to the Albufeira Marina, but everything was still closed at 9am. Also, no people in sight, just a lonely guy here and there getting ready for the day. The portuguese people sure know how to start the day without any extra stress! It's really hard to find a cup of coffee or a sandwich at 9am, OR to go shopping! Practically impossible.

At the marina we wanted to find out about the dolphin sighting cruises, but as I just pointed out, there was no-one to talk to. So we are going to call them later and see if we get onboard tomorrow or so. These cruises will take us to the seaside caves too, which is way cool!!

I know my friend Satu is going to hate me if I spot any doplhins... BUT I'll try to keep our friendship alive by taking a few nice photos and maybe print out some of them to her! :)

The days so far have pretty much been the same, basicly. We wake up (too) early, go for a long long long hot walk around the town, eat something light, take a swim, then pass out for an hour or two. It's funny how the siesta works out for you! It's just so natural to take a nap at the hottest time of the day just after lunch. I never do that at home! But, then again, I don't go around walking for 3 hours up and down the narrow paths and steep hills in Finland every morning...

So what else have we done so far? Hmm, we had a little family drama on evening, but in the morning the sunshine woke us up to a better morning.. everything was forgiven and the day continued nicely.

Oh, yesterday we visited the big shopping mall, too, called Algarve shopping.. it looked pretty big when we arrived, but we soon realized there wasn't that much to see after all. So we ate some lovely vegetarian food and Italian ice cream (BEST EVER!!!!) and headed back to the hotel.

I got some artsy fartsy photos at the mall's parking lot, of a fountain. Sunset and all. Boy, don't they look spooky, gotta update the blog with photos when we get home.

Ok, my half an hour on this computer is full, gotta run. Have to go buy some more cat & dog food from Lidl nearby, since the small creatures ate everything we had last nite. Lovely animals. Wish I could adopt them all!

Ta ta for now.

-Tiia-