Second Day in óbidos, Máfara and then back to Lisboa

I woke up at around 8:00AM the next day with no word from Grandma or Sarah Grace, which was strange. Grandma's motto has always been. "We are on vacation! We shouldn't be sleeping in, we should be out and about doing stuff!" So I was puzzled when I hadn't received a wake up call. At 8:30AM I go down the hall way to their room and knock on the door. SG opens the door and it is dark. I walk in and I say, good morning Grandma, it's 8:30. She shoots up in bed, turns on the light and with her hair sticking straight up in the air she proclaims, "8:30!" It was priceless. We all laughed. Grandma had slept the entire night. Something she hadn't done in years.
We decided to take the journey up to Óbidos again. This time with Grandma. She walked up the hill and all the stairs. It was a beautiful day. The sky was blue and the temperature was perfect. We had not had a rainy day on our vacation yet!
During the day Óbidos is filled with children on field trips. The tour guides took them on what looked liked to be wild goose chases. We would see tours of children holding their shoes in the air and chanting words in Portuguese that I couldn't understand. It was hysterical. We walked around, did a little bit of shopping and of course got some ice cream. :) We were sad to say goodbye to Óbidos, but it was time to hit the road and go see Máfara.
Now if you have ever hung out with the Fitzsimmons women, you know that we all love to sing. SG calls my impuse to sing, singer's turrets. At any moment I could break into song. So being that this was the epic Portuguese road trip, we had to sing in the car. So we sang, everything under the sun. Rui, our driver, rather liked our singing and asked us if we knew, I am sixteen going on seventeen from the sound of music. Did we EVER?! We sang a loud randition and then he proceeded to ask if we knew any lady gaga. In fact, we did. Hooray for Poker Face and Bad Romance. :) It truly was an amazing road trip.
When we arrived in Máfara it proved to be a beautiful cathedral and monestary. We saw the library, that was filled with rats and bats!, the king's quarters and where the monks lived. We were all starving afterwards, so we all had a huge lunch and then headed back to our original hotel in LISBOA! On the way we saw beautiful mountains, landscape....and...wait a min, what is that Rachel and Rui saw? Could that be a peeing man? It was, he was peeing in the Lisbon streets. All of us sure got a kick out of that one. :)
We had a wonderful journey. I am sure we won't be able to process all that we had seen now, but I am sure it will creep up on us later when we least expect it, how profound this journey really is.