Força Portugal! GOOOAAAALLLLL

After a two hour nap, we got up at 5am to get ready to head to the airport. As we were leaving, Keri was coming home in a taxi (they party hard in Madrid) so we had a chance to say goodbye before we left.

Our airport experience was awesome.. Though the airport was large and conduaing. We found our gate and boarded/took off on time. After a quick 50 minute flight (and nap) we arrived in Portugal - early but excited! We called an über to take us to our beach house and was picked up by Carlos. Carlos is my new best friend. During the 20 minute drive to our air bnb, we learned about his time as an über driver, where he used to work, and he gave us plenty of advice for our stay! He also taught us how to say beer (cerveça) and wine (vino) - very important!

We arrived at our beach house and were greeted by Carla andbher husband Juan. They are another absolutely amazing host ... They brought us to our apartment and she sat down with us to give us a list of aights to see in Porto and Gaia (the neighboring city). Our apartment is not only spacious and clean... It is made of almost entirely marble and stone. Seriously. It is like living in a den of complete opulence.

So after quickly getting ready to start the day, we walked to the train to head into the city. When we got there, we grabbed a map to do another self guided walking tour of the city qnd quickly headed towards the port to take pictures. We began to get hungry and after looking at a few restaurants unsuccessfully, we decided to head to trusty McDonalds. I had my new favourite burger - the McRoyal. I honestly have no idea what it is, it's just delicious as all hell.

We had full intentions of continuing on our walking tour but as we walked out into the square we noticed three huge screens set up to play the Portugal vs. France game and we settled in for the day. It was only 4pm and the gamebstarted at 8pm, so we picked up some portugal flags and settled into the perfect spot.

4 hours of people watching and excitement later... The game ia about to start. Everyone stood to sing the anthem and it was absolute madness. The pictures and videos don't even do it justice.... Once i upload the go pro pictures you will see. There were thousands upon thousands of people all dressed in red and green cheering on team Portugal. I have to admit - I am a huge Portugal fan now because of it.

As the game started, everyone in the centre sections sat down to watch except a couple of people... But the crazy older lady next to us threw wet toilet paper at them and then they sat down. I couldn't make this up if i TRIED. The first half of the game was full of ups and downs, emotions ran high in the crowd but everyone was on their best(ish) behaviour.

At half time, Tay and Shaunessa went to the bathroom while I saved our seats... But it didnt really work out to well. After several stressful minutes, I saw Taylor waving at me from the sidelines and i quickly grabbed my stuff and tip toed through the crowd. A few helpful people picked me up and pushed me through the crowd so I could find Taylor and Shaunessa safely. Did I mention I love Portuguese people?

We watched the rest of the stressful game from the side and when Portugal won.... Words cannot describe the atmosphere and the feeling of the crowd.. We sat back and just took everything in. I cannot believe how insanely fortunate we were to experience all of this.

We walked back to the train station through huge crowds of celebrating people and... Wow. Porto was lit.

I cant even explain it any more than that... Porto was f*cking lit.Read more