Portugal with Family

Madison has Friday and Monday off school so we decided to take a trip together. My sister Shawn served her mission in Portugal and talks highly of the city Porto. So we drove here yesterday. I needed to be on a conference call with my partners by 7:00 our time. We arrived in Porto at 7:00. Good job, Just get to the hotel and give them a Skype call. Well after 2 hours of looking, we finally found a hotel. Not ours but one that could give us directions to ours. Lynette went in so I could double park. She came out with directions. About 30 minutes later we found ourselves in an old section of town with tiny one-way cobblestone streets. We stooped at a Bakery and asked for directions. The lady behind the counter knew a little bit of english but didn't know how to get us to our hotel. So she asked her boss and 2 other men that were in the bakery. After several minutes of these 60-70 year old men yelling at each other, the boss decided that the only way we could get there was if he drove his car and we followed him.

What a great kindness to some lost strangers. We followed him for 20-25 minutes and ended up at the same hotel where we asked directions the first time. We didn't have the heart to tell him it was the wrong hotel. We just thanked him and went in to ask again. the second time wasn't any better. about 45 minutes later I found the right exit and almost fell into our hotel. It was very fun to see how anxious people were to help us. We all just laughed at our adventure and felt good about those who did there best to help.