We started today by dropping  by the Casa Paco.. things were moving slowly up there

 

Max, Becky. Diane and I drove up to Mafra to see the palace gardens and to meet Max’s freinds Amanda and Marco. We had a nice walk around Mafra town and settled at a nice cafe to wait for Max’s friends.. Once htey showed up we went up to walk the beutiful gardens around Mafra palace.

One of the most amazing features was the ancient horse drawn irrigation system.. still in amazing shape

somhow that lead to a peacock pose demonstration

 

it was hot and we were getting hungry .. so we headed back in to the town to look for sustenance. we found a great Poke place.. the world Is truly flat !

We said good bye  to our new freinds and headed back to ericera

 

Dinner tonight was a highly rated seafood restaurant. We ordered the seafood dinner for the table.. it wasn’t what we were expecting. Everything required dissection and it was more of an anatomy lesson than a meal.. but the wait staff was nice.. and it was awkwardly fun.. and somewhat tasty.. don’t need to do it again though

 

afterwards we picked up a pizza (turned out to be a bad idea) and ice. cream for Gabes friend Sam who’d arrived last night. She was back at the house on a class…

Nice long day.. More tomorrow !

nite all. nite sam 

-me