Day one: Into Lisbon we go
It is an unpleasant thing, waking up in the morning. Especially when one has a sore throat as I did. Luckily the weather was on my side (for once) and it was unpleasant and rainy. Eventually, it stopped and we left for the capital of Portugal. When we got off the train, and went to the tour bus stop, we met the person who was driving us yesterday! So we traveled with him for a while, then we stopped at the only department store in the city to find some underwear. We didn’t find one pair. It was all grotesquely large *Ewww* Then went out side to the other bus stop and waited, and waited, and waited for the blue line bus to come. Eventually it came and we jumped out of the cold on
to the double Decker bus. But unfortunately it was the last stop and the bus waited for another half hour at the first stop. It was raining though, so we stayed on. We wanted to go to the aquarium, because it was so miserable, and it was cheap. When we finally got to our destination, we walked quickly into the museum and paid 22 euro for all of us, better then the 92 we paid in Barcelona. When we walked in, the first thing we saw was a VERY large tank with manta rays,
sting rays, a sunfish, sharks and assorted large and small fish. The sun fish is very ugly; it can grow up to three meters and weigh up to 2 tons! Then we went into the Atlantic exhibit, they had lots of puffins and fish. The birds weren’t even fenced in! They we went into the arctic exhibit. They had penguins and real ice. The next exhibit had two otters that were sleeping. They were very cute. Then we saw a… oh what is called, the fish in Finding Nemo called Dory. They had free range birds in that one too. Between the exhibits, we could see more of the first tank, which was in the middle of the aquarium. Then we went downstairs and saw the bottom of all the tanks. The penguins were very cute as they went in and out of the water. The otters had woken up as well. Then we saw it, a cuttle fish, and relative of the octopus. It was the first one any of us had ever seen. Then, as if the aquarium couldn’t get any better, we saw a giant pacific octopus. It was bright red and was swimming against the glass. Did you know, each of its suckers works independently? After that, they had a behind the scenes thing with baby sea horses, baby sharks, and blue jellyfish and………….. Baby cuttle fish!!! They were the cutest things in the aquarium. After that we left and had to wait another half hour for the bus to come back. By then it was rush hour and we were stuck in traffic for an hour. When we finally got home it was already nine :o and boy, were we hungry. We had pizza, it was good. Then we went to bed.
Day two: Here comes the sun.
I was feeling even worse today, and mom didn’t want to do anything, but lie in her bed. The weather eventually called them both out and we were allowed to go on the internet. In a couple hours, Dad got us out of the apartment with the promise of milkshakes. Unwillingly, we came, and it was beautiful. We stopped at a little restaurant by the beach, were a dozen or so surfers we having fun in the massive waves. We had lunch there, hamburgers, fries and a chocolate milkshake. A good thing about being sick is that Mom and Dad don’t steal you drinks and fries. We stayed for a while, then Dad went to the store while Mom, Emily and I went back to do our homework, and Mom to get her camera. Luckily for us, the math wasn’t working so we did our magazines instead. Now we're having dinner, G2G (got to go)
Josephine
It is an unpleasant thing, waking up in the morning. Especially when one has a sore throat as I did. Luckily the weather was on my side (for once) and it was unpleasant and rainy. Eventually, it stopped and we left for the capital of Portugal. When we got off the train, and went to the tour bus stop, we met the person who was driving us yesterday! So we traveled with him for a while, then we stopped at the only department store in the city to find some underwear. We didn’t find one pair. It was all grotesquely large *Ewww* Then went out side to the other bus stop and waited, and waited, and waited for the blue line bus to come. Eventually it came and we jumped out of the cold on
to the double Decker bus. But unfortunately it was the last stop and the bus waited for another half hour at the first stop. It was raining though, so we stayed on. We wanted to go to the aquarium, because it was so miserable, and it was cheap. When we finally got to our destination, we walked quickly into the museum and paid 22 euro for all of us, better then the 92 we paid in Barcelona. When we walked in, the first thing we saw was a VERY large tank with manta rays,
sting rays, a sunfish, sharks and assorted large and small fish. The sun fish is very ugly; it can grow up to three meters and weigh up to 2 tons! Then we went into the Atlantic exhibit, they had lots of puffins and fish. The birds weren’t even fenced in! They we went into the arctic exhibit. They had penguins and real ice. The next exhibit had two otters that were sleeping. They were very cute. Then we saw a… oh what is called, the fish in Finding Nemo called Dory. They had free range birds in that one too. Between the exhibits, we could see more of the first tank, which was in the middle of the aquarium. Then we went downstairs and saw the bottom of all the tanks. The penguins were very cute as they went in and out of the water. The otters had woken up as well. Then we saw it, a cuttle fish, and relative of the octopus. It was the first one any of us had ever seen. Then, as if the aquarium couldn’t get any better, we saw a giant pacific octopus. It was bright red and was swimming against the glass. Did you know, each of its suckers works independently? After that, they had a behind the scenes thing with baby sea horses, baby sharks, and blue jellyfish and………….. Baby cuttle fish!!! They were the cutest things in the aquarium. After that we left and had to wait another half hour for the bus to come back. By then it was rush hour and we were stuck in traffic for an hour. When we finally got home it was already nine :o and boy, were we hungry. We had pizza, it was good. Then we went to bed.Day two: Here comes the sun.
I was feeling even worse today, and mom didn’t want to do anything, but lie in her bed. The weather eventually called them both out and we were allowed to go on the internet. In a couple hours, Dad got us out of the apartment with the promise of milkshakes. Unwillingly, we came, and it was beautiful. We stopped at a little restaurant by the beach, were a dozen or so surfers we having fun in the massive waves. We had lunch there, hamburgers, fries and a chocolate milkshake. A good thing about being sick is that Mom and Dad don’t steal you drinks and fries. We stayed for a while, then Dad went to the store while Mom, Emily and I went back to do our homework, and Mom to get her camera. Luckily for us, the math wasn’t working so we did our magazines instead. Now we're having dinner, G2G (got to go)
Josephine
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