Another visit.

We decided another visit to the river was a must. This time we took the long route. We visited a few places we hadn't seen before. We used the river as enticement for the boy, I say boy because Parker was the only one to please. Our first stop was this big open plaza. We like the guy on the horse.

Lincoln and I tend to get into a lot of Mother-Son shots because I am holding him and want a picture of him. He doesn't really sit still and we are working on getting him to look at the camera while I take these self-photos.I think Willie looks good in this picture. I can't really say what this building is used for, we don't get to know the facts when the kid is throwing a tantrum every half hour.He may look sweet and innocent but we struggled at keeping our patience with this angel. It is our fault, we took him out during his nap time and didn't let him watch the trains as much as we probably should have. Parker really is a good kid and we love him. We probably give him too much of a hard time. Here is Lincoln in front of another cool old building. I think it was a church with some Baroque time period to it. We stumbled into someone's back yard. This was a sight that we loved to see. I think I will ask my Grandma Pettigrew to paint this picture up for Lincoln. Here is Parker (during a tantrum, really hitting the later hour of nap-time) and Willie. A wonderful sight.On this bridge the train travels. Parker loves the bridge and the train and the river that you can see from the bridge. It's hard to tell but Lincoln is giving a little smile under his binky.We found another pastry shop and found some yummy food to eat. At this point in the day we could see the clouds rolling in. We tried hard to run to one of the oldest castles in Porto. It reminds me a little of Notre Dame. As we left this castle we hurried to the Metro and jumped on board. When we got off the rain had started but we caught our bus in a good amount of time and we stayed pretty dry. We are still working on figuring out the bus schedule and many other important things. We can't seem to figure out where the drop box is for our mail. We are trying to enjoy Porto as best we can. At times it is difficult being so far away from home and in a land where you don't know what people are saying. We try to live like tourists. We have learned how to say 'I don't speak Portugese,' 'Eo nao falo Portugesh' (that's my spelling). Very slowly we are learning enough to get by. We hope to take a few lessons while we are here. Any chance we get we ask someone how to say something and we learn a new word.