Day 1

So yesterday was quite the adventure. It was definitely a lot of fun. After I left off yesterday, we went back out to a bar on some sketchy street. We started out just hanging out watching the Portugal v. Italy Futbol game and drinking some drinks. We ended up sitting at the bar with some crazy British guy for several hours. He was funny as hell telling us the craziest stories. Italy ended up winning the game in pks. Spike, the crazy Brit, ended up buyin all of us rounds so we hung out with him for awhile as we felt obligated haha. All of the bars here close at 1am which is pretty gay considering it doesn't get dark until 11 or so. We left the bar at 1 and roamed around the city for awhile. It was disturbing to see the number of people coming up to us asking to sell coke and ecstasy. The coolest part is the "toilets" on the sides of streets. Its pretty much a metal cirlce which you go in and pee on a concrete slab haha. But it gets light here at about 5:30 or 6 so theres only about 7 hours of darkness. Its 8:15 right now and I've already taken a shower and eaten my breakfast. I think we are going to take the free walking tour offered by the hostel today at 10:30. After that we are going to rent some bikes and ride around the city. Bikes are the way to go around here thats for sure. I think tonight we are going to do a pub crawl which should be pretty fun. This guy gave us a card yesterday and its definitely a pretty good deal. Check it out at www.joinultimateparty.com . Pretty much you meet up and they take you to different bars. You get a beer at each of the 6 bars and a shot between each bar. Sounds fun to me haha. But I'm gonna go try and take a little nap before the bike rental shop opens and before the walking tour...peace