When we arrived in Portugal, Sarah and I had our fingers crossed that Toby, a friend of Katherine´s and a boy we had never met would be waiting for us at the arrivals gate to pick us up. Katherine had sent us an email (entitled "hot boy at the airport") with a picture of him which we studied thoroughly before we left Antibes. Luckily as soon as we got to the arrivals gate we spotted him and got to ride in his sweet van back to his apartment. We became fast friends as Toby is VERY nice and made us feel extremely welcome. He gave us a lovely breakfast and then let us have a much needed nap in his room for a couple hours, as we were severely lacking in sleep from the night before. When we got up, we all took a walk from his apartment through Porto, on the way to the beach! It was a beautiful Portugese day, 25 degrees and sunny and Sarah and I felt like it was a beautiful summer day in the Maritimes. Toby showed us his University on the way where we bumped into one of his friends from school and he introduced us as his friends from Canada even though we had only known him for approximately 4 hours. We got down to the water and had an amazing view of the Atlantic Ocean from the side we are not used to seeing. We walked along t
he water until we came to a beautiful beach where we lay out on towels and soaked up some sun (well Sarah did, I clearly applied sunscreen!) I put my feet in the Atlantic but decided that it was not quite as warm as the Mediterrean, so my feet were as far as I got. From the beach, Toby took us to a have our first Portugese beer which we very much enjoyed. We took the bus back to the apartment, and While Toby went to class Sarah and I relaxed for a couple hours before we all got back in the sweet van to pick up KJ at the Airport! When Katherine finally arrived after her 20 hour travel day, we were all very happy to see her and very excited to complete our threesome. Even though the first words out of Katherine´s mouth 
were " I am so tired" she was an amazing trooper and Toby took us all out to a Portugese bar where we met a lot of his friends and drank caipirinha´s, a very strange frozen drink which I´m still not sure exactly what it was. Katherine, being very sleep deprived was a little delerious but very entertaining for the rest of us and proceeded to ask a fraternity, sorority type of organization who were at the bar why they were all wearing black capes.... one thing lead to another, ending with one of the first year students proposing marrige to her. All in all it was very good night but an even better sleep.
- Kate
he water until we came to a beautiful beach where we lay out on towels and soaked up some sun (well Sarah did, I clearly applied sunscreen!) I put my feet in the Atlantic but decided that it was not quite as warm as the Mediterrean, so my feet were as far as I got. From the beach, Toby took us to a have our first Portugese beer which we very much enjoyed. We took the bus back to the apartment, and While Toby went to class Sarah and I relaxed for a couple hours before we all got back in the sweet van to pick up KJ at the Airport! When Katherine finally arrived after her 20 hour travel day, we were all very happy to see her and very excited to complete our threesome. Even though the first words out of Katherine´s mouth 
were " I am so tired" she was an amazing trooper and Toby took us all out to a Portugese bar where we met a lot of his friends and drank caipirinha´s, a very strange frozen drink which I´m still not sure exactly what it was. Katherine, being very sleep deprived was a little delerious but very entertaining for the rest of us and proceeded to ask a fraternity, sorority type of organization who were at the bar why they were all wearing black capes.... one thing lead to another, ending with one of the first year students proposing marrige to her. All in all it was very good night but an even better sleep.- Kate
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