We’re off!

 The traffic gods were on our sides to LAX. An hour 20 home to lounge!  We were starving so we enjoyed some food and wine before we boarded.  

Long flight, and although we had lie down seats the rest wasn’t very restful.  Kirk only slept a few hours while I may have had just a bit more.  Deplaned and headed to clear customs, which at first was fairly smooth.  We were told “congratulations you can use the E-gate” but the E-gate wasn’t working for everyone so we had to wait in line over an hour for them to rescan our passport. It was a little confusing but the airport personal were very nice. Very warm wait. Kirk has sweat dripping down his back 😩. Then we were off to find Bolt (like Uber).  In all the videos we watched it showed a quiet airport with an easy trip to Bolt. Well this was not the case. The airport was super crowded and while there were fairly clear directions the Bolt area was insanely crowded and a bit confusing.  Thankfully our guy skipped the line and parked in a more expensive area (2 euro) but it was very close and not crowded.   

Checked in to Hotel de Baixa and headed out to explore but really to stay awake until our dinner at 7. We were zombies. Dinner at Taberna da Baixa - octopus and fresh fish with a bottle of local Sauvignon blanc.

UPDATE forgot to talk about the strange musak at all the restaurants. We heard Prince, The Cure and many more in a slow elevator style.  It was not good but we found ourselves humming along and then laughing at the absurdity once we realized what it was.  That or we were just so delirious.  Or both.