Monday happened to be a day off for us and it also happened to be Heidi's 25th birthday, so we took the opportunity to spend the day at the beach. It's not often that a girl from the mid-west gets to spend her birthday at the ocean.
Because we usually don't go to bed before midnight, us girls got to sing Happy Birthday to Heidi and found some left over birthday cake from Marjorie's birthday the night before to share.
Being that it was Heidi's 25th birthday, we decided to make it a little extra special. The theme of the day was obviously 25. Sunday night, Rachael, Aleah and I blew up 25 balloons and wrote intersting facts about January 17, the year 1986, quotes, etc on each of the balloons.
After breakfast we headed out to the beach. We are fortunate enough to live only a 25 minutes away from the ocean. The bus ride was a little intense. Imagine a very narrow 2 lane road - a rock wall on one side and a steep drop off on the other. Now imagine 2 buses trying to pass each other on that road at the same time. They must have their most experienced drivers on those buses because that manuvering of those 2 buses was done to perfection with literally an inch of room to spare.
We safely made it to the train station where we took a beautiful, but short train ride along the ocean.
Eventually we arrived at Carcavelos Beach, very excited to be at the ocean.
We found these awesome bathing suits at the Bazar last weekend. We couldn't pass them up, so we took them for this very special occasion :)
Me and the birthday girl....Love you Heidi!
Eventually, Rachael, Heidi and Donovan had the courage to actually swim in the ocean. I could not muster up the courage to follow.
So, instead of swimming, I enjoyed a yummy meia de leite on the boardwalk while I journalled and listened to the crashing waves. It was pure perfection!
It was a perfect day. I can't wait until we can do this more often when it gets a lot hotter out.
Oh, my gosh. I knew you guys were really gutsy, but wearing those bathing suits in public took more guts than I could have mustered. I'll never mess with you guys again. That was scary crazy, lol.
ReplyDeleteNow that I think about it, the swimsuit picture could be the next TREK recruiting poster.
ReplyDeleteThose bathing suits paired with your clothes are PRICELESS. Especially yours! Wow. :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like you guys had an awesome day celebrating Heidi!