off to portugal

We decided to drive to Porto. We drove around the city for what seemed like hours trying to find a hotel. our spanish was no help, and nothing was in english. the damn information sign led us in circles. we found a hotel finally and were happy to have our stuff somewhere. i thought about driving us out of town. we first walked to the main cathedral . we then found another church to check out. we then followed the walkways down to the river. We found a huge bridge that kids were jumping off of. it was intense. It must have been 50 feet and these fearless kids were jumping no problem. it was great when they would do the father son and holy spirit crossing and then kiss there hand , look up and then jump. laurie started stripping down to do it herself, which i talked her out of . We went in some of the most beautiful churches. church san fransico was stunning. it was worth paying for it. On top of one of the churches we saw a baby seagull. the mom seagull was trying to teach his baby how to fly. The seagull did not like us there so it flew up and then darted down towards our heads. we quickly ducked and screamed. it tried to attack us!!!! We looked at each other in amazement and then the bird came toward us again trying to get is again!!! we quickly got out of there. we hiked up a huge hill and then down to the center square. That night we watched the worldcup outside on the big screen. it was fun and huge crowd got into it. we then finished watching the game at a cute restaurant where the food was yummy. i was not feeling well since i ate some weird fish ball earlier in the day and he then drank about 7 beers and a pitcher of sangria.
the next day andrew awoke sick, we think food posioning. he was beat up so we drove out of town and to a cute surf town called peniche and stayed at a famous surf spot called Baleal. we have been here for a few days. i have been surfing and andrew has been recovering. i have not seen him this ill in a while. today while surfing these portuguese men accused me of surfing too close to some girl and then did the point at his eyes and then at me 5 times!!!. one guy then said"you don't even want to know what will happen to you if you hit that girl" then two other guys tried to vibe me. The wierd thing was i wasnt even close to hitting that girl with my board. i just surfed around them and stared them down. i was wishing andrew was out there. i know andrew would have just smiled at them, and they would have paddled away. well one more day here in peniche and then on to another surf beach in portugal.