Life, According to Chris

So, I purchased the MINI Cooper S and LOVE it! The only problem is, I need help coming up with a name for the car. I think I'd like some kind of a British name. I was pretty sure the car was a male, until I used the navigation system for the fist time and heard a female voice. Then everydave sent me a link to an article that explained how to hack the nav system to enable either a male or female voice with either a British accent or not. So, the whole point of telling you all that is that I need suggestions of names for both genders. :) So, suggestions?

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So, I decided to rip out the carpet in the dining room and replace it with the tile that is in the rest of the house. It actually turned out REALLY well! I have to sponge mop the tiles again tonight and will then be able to seal the grout tomorrow night.

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So, I'm going to go look at this 2007 MINI Cooper S tomorrow afternoon.

I've already contacted the bank and received preapproval for the loan. So, if it looks as good in person as it does online, I may FINALLY be getting my MINI! :)

I'll keep you posted. ;)

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I know I've been home for a week now, but I've just gotten around to FINALLY posting the last two days of our trip.  So, if you are interested, scroll down and take a look.  :) 

Also, you can access them directly here:

• Last Day in Portugal
• Mafra, Obdios, and a Pottery Factory...Oh my!

Not sure how well this will show up, but I saw this license plate on a white, Ford Bronco on my way to work this morning:

License plate: IMNOTOJ (I'm not OJ)

LOL Loved it!!

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Well, we're waiting for our luggage so we can go through customs. I've got two days of postings that I hope to get posted before we board our next plane to SLC. Hope everyone is well!

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This morning we drove over the Ponte 25 de Abril (translation: 25th of April Bridge) on our way to see the Cristo-Rei (translation: Christ the King) monument. The bridge, which spans the Tagus River and connects Lisbon with Almada, was built in 1966 and was patterned after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Before the bridge was built, ferries were the only way across the river.


 

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We left around 10 this morning and headed to see the Mafra National Palace.
 
 

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Hi all!

I´ve posted the past three days entries and gone through all the previous entries and added tons of pictures!  Check it out, if you´d like!

Later...

I crashed HARD last night. After I finished typing the day’s events I shut down the computer. While waiting for it to turn off, I passed out. Lol I woke up around 1 in the morning, lights on, on top of my bed, and still in my clothes. Too funny. It shouldn’t be a surprise then that I was up and ready to go before everyone else. However, today ended up being a very casual and relaxing day…which I loved. 

 

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We left the house this morning around 9:30 and drove 45 minutes back to Sintra to visit two of the sites that we did not get to on our first visit there. We drove through the small streets of Sintra and then up the mountain quite a ways…tiny, tiny, steep winding road; I have NO idea how the tour busses make it up the hills and around those corners. 

 

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I finally got to wear shorts today! Since Candy and Craig were gone to Zone Conference today, we didn’t rush to get up and out the door. I slept in until around 10 or so and then we kind of just piddled around the house. We didn’t leave the house until about one. We walked down towards the water front to visit the sites here in the Lisbon area. Along the way, we stopped at a little corner market and bought hard bread rolls, sliced cheese, and potato chips. We then walked down to the park by the water and ate lunch. Unfortunately, the potato chips we grabbed were not the ketchup ones like we thought.  They ended up just being plain BBQ flavored. Ever since Craig told us about the ketchup flavored chips we have been looking for them so we can give it a try!

 

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...because while I was getting ready (and throughout the day) my hamstring was aching.  Must have been from all the stairs yesterday.  ugh

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Bon dia!

Today after breakfast we drove about 45 minutes to Sintra. Sintra is this really cute small town with really narrow roads and buildings that are centuries old.
 

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I slept in until 10ish this morning and it felt great!  Got up and got ready and then went downstairs to have breakfast.  Portugal has REALLY good juice!  It's not the thin watered down juice that we have here in the US...it is a really thick nectar drink that is SO good!  They have flavors such as pear, apricot, nectarine, and pineapple/coconut...yum!

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It felt nice to sleep in today. We took our time getting up this morning as there wasn’t anything we were going to be doing before heading to the airport. Also, we stayed up rather late (after midnight) watching a TV show on the BBC (one of only a handful of English language channels). From what we could gather (we started watching part way through the first episode) there is a group of seemingly ordinary people living together in a house during present day; one is a vampire, one is a werewolf, and the other is a ghost. The storyline is that (among other things) they are trying to prevent the spread of the bad vampire clan. It was pretty witty and seemed to have a good storyline.
 

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Today started out earlier than yesterday. We got up, got ready, ate breakfast, and were out the door by 9 AM. We once again caught the express train to the downtown Paris area. This morning on the train we were serenaded by a man playing songs on an accordion. He then walked up and down the aisle asking for money for his songs.
 

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We got up late this morning and barely made it to breakfast on time. The breakfast here at the Hilton was very nice and we found out they have a computer in the executive lounge to use. I was going to post on that computer tonight, but when we got back to the hotel, we found out that the lounge closed at 11…the time we got back. However, I’m getting ahead of myself.
 

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OK, so flying coach on a completely full plane overnight is not fun. We actually left Washington DC on time and were surprised to find out that Air France provided dinner even though our flight didn’t leave until 10 pm. The flight crew and plane were nice, but it was just SO uncomfortable…I probably only slept about 4 hours of the 8 hour flight.  Oh, and somehow we got lucky enough to have 1 of the 4 seats on the plane that didn’t have a window on the outer wall of the row. Lol  

 

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Just found out there is a Livejournal app for the iPhone! This should make posting easier...we shall see. :)

Side note: we are sitting in tv "B" concourse of the airport and there are over 80 gates in thisconcourse alone. Wow.

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