La vie est belle

Thursday, October 14, 2004


Lindsay bundled up in London Stansted airport...our "hostel" for the night. We flew in at midnight and left at 6am to Venice--massive sleepover. Posted by Hello

Lindsay with our travel buddies Justin, Jason and Alex that were on the flight to London with us to begin the extended wknd adventure! Posted by Hello

Tuesday, October 05, 2004


Amber and Katie climbing through the beautiful caves in the water! Our camera ran out of battery at this point, or we would have had some real frameable shots.  Posted by Hello

Just incredible... Posted by Hello

Ok so to get to this gorgeous beach...we had to walk up and down about 10 stories of stairs. Thanks goodness it was worth the exhausting haul, or else we would have been some bitter girls, but too short of breath to complain about it. Posted by Hello

Our last day at the beach! Kelly and Amber Sunday morning in front of Praia(beach in portugese) Camilio-definitely our favorite beach! Posted by Hello

Us doing the pose that means..."What? We're at the end of the world?" I know its pretty obvious, but we thought we put a little caption just incase you missed that clear translation with the hand motions and facial expressions. Posted by Hello

Saturday night we went to see Cabo San Vincente at sunset! This is the southwesternmost part of Europe that they used to believe was the end of the earth!! So incredible to know that they next land in front of us is the great U.S.A.!  Posted by Hello

We love Lagos. Posted by Hello

Learn how to fend off 75lb portuguese bellboys in just one weekend

It´s been many moons since you last heard from the moviestars like ourselves..since then we have tackled and actually killed innocent bulls in a bullfight, spent hours conversing with beautiful spanish men in yes you guessed it..spanish. Our next adventure was to Lagos Portugal which was where we encountered massive rocks that we had to scale in order to save us from the crazy portuguese men and we were bleeding, oh you´ll see the pics.. we went sailing across the atlantic, swam through shark infested waters, explored caves and lagoons that put The Little Mermaid to shame, went to the end of the world, saw America from standing on a cliff (no..silly..not true) but we danced the night away to some very cultural music, um yah can i get a ¨Man in the Mirror¨ performed exclusively by Michael Jackson, we have hung out at American bars to watch ¨Friends¨ which proved to be useful for practicing our ENGLISH..haha. We are bonding like never before..meeting many foreigners from all walks of life and livin it up Eurostyle.

This looks like a skull....even if you can't see the skull, it's a really cool rock in the water. Posted by Hello

From the big boat, they had a little motor boat come take us in groups of 11 out through the grottos, or little caves and limestone rock formations in the water! So cool. Posted by Hello

We got free Sangria on the boat and definitely enjoyed our time soaking up the sun! Posted by Hello

The water was reallllly cold, but beautiful and so clear! This is after we all jumped off the boat for a little swim in the ocean. Posted by Hello

Whoa ladies...this wasn't an all girls trip--but we notice more and more that pretty much only girls decide to study abroad. Gentleman in the states-take a hint: Come to Spain, the odds will totally be in your favor! Posted by Hello

On Saturday at 11am we went on a lovely sailboat cruise with about 35 students from our group! What a great way to start the day... Posted by Hello

We have conquered the rock! So what if a wave crashed our bodies into the rock as we were trying to climb up...jumping off the top was definitely worth the blood! Posted by Hello

Pretty girls in Portugal! Posted by Hello

More beautiful beach....we're in love. Posted by Hello

Lindsay and Kelly having a photo shoot with the pole in the town center...basically, we had to kill some time in between dinner and the bar! Posted by Hello

Praia Doña María-the beach we went to the first day in Lagos! Posted by Hello

It's really cool for Spanish girls to wear huge sunglasses that cover most of their face...haha we tried to imitate that look...but we'll keep trying. Posted by Hello

Out on the town enjoying a beautiful, delicious ice cream sundae Friday night! FYI, everyone in Lagos, Portugal speaks English and gets offended if you speak in Spanish. cuidado. Posted by Hello

Here we are with Scott and Mike-two of our "leaders" on our trip to Lagos with DiscoverSevilla! Lindsay and I are flashing the free drink coupons we got at our VIP party at Old Tavern...good times! Posted by Hello

We've arrived in Lagos! Here we are, struggling to get into our little hotel room--it took us about 15 minutes to realize we were in the wrong building. oops. Posted by Hello

Tuesday, September 28, 2004


Kelly on our first day of school--in the castle they CLAIM to be an old tabacco factory, but who really knows. Posted by Hello