We got up at 6:30am to drive Isabel, Bob, and Nathan back to the airport in Lisbon. We made pretty good time, ran into a little traffic as we approached the big bridge in Lisbon, and were able to drop them off at around 10:30am. Maria and I then went to the shopping mall just north of the airport to hit the Toys-R-Us (go figure!) to look for some Portuguese Yu-Gi-Oh cards for John and his cousins. The mall had a food court, complete with McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC, and Baskin-Robbins. I felt like I had died and gone to a little piece of heaven. We were both starving, so we both had an early lunch. We then went to KFC to bring back a bucket of chicken back to Sao Salvador. I'm sure that this is the only time in my life that I'll drive 240km (150 miles) for take-out! We also found a magazine shop that sold English newspapers. Bought one American and one Brittish paper. That's when we found out that Julia Child died.
On the way back, we stopped in Portalegre so that Maria could pick up her permanent Portuguese passport, and that's when I found the internet cafe right across the street from the government building. It was just starting to rain, so we were able to get in there for a few minutes so that I could check email. Not much time to do anything else as Maria kept telling me to hurry up and get off the damn computer so that we could leave.
Otherwise, an uneventful rest of the day. Went to bed early that night because we were tired.
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