Lisbon, Portugal

Today we arrived in Lisbon at 8:00 A.M. their time. We started out on a bus tour through the city with a tour guide where we would get off and on of the buses. The city is gorgeous! It has a mixture of Italian and Spanish looking buildings with the plants and landscape that look like it is a tropical island(minus the temperature...the breeze was prrrreetttttty nippy). Before getting into our hotel we went to a diner for lunch where Hillary and I the vegetarians of the group ate mushrooms and rice in a tomato and vegetable stew. We all plan to go out tonight in a group to celebrate the beginning of our trip and hopefully we will get to see the charm of Lisbon's night life that we have heard about on our day tour. It's finally sinking in that we are now on the trip we have prepared for for years now. So exciting!