Today has been a long day. And it’s still going. Our plane was a bit late leaving Seattle and finally took off at 8:30pm. We arrived at Heathrow where we met Justine and Maurice. I can imagine it’s not the easiest for a 16 year old to walk up to someone who is nearly a random stranger in an airport and hang out with them for 5 hours before her cousin shows up. But Justine rolls with the punches and it seemed like her and Maurice were already getting along.

The moms as I’m referring to them (mine and Justine’s) insisted on photo proof that we all successfully met up. So there it is.

We knew our flight on TAP airlines from London to Lisbon has a reputation of being late so we knew there was a possibility that we wouldn’t make our train connection. Well that happened. So we are now sitting on one of the last trains to Porto tonight that feels like it’s moving at a glacial pace.

The silver lining of us missing our intended train was that we got to spend more time chatting with my friend Bruno. He’s been so incredibly helpful in the planning of our journey and was kind enough to give us a ride to the train station today and help us get our new train tickets sorted out. We do wish he was joining us on our walk. Another time.

We’ll be getting into Porto around 1am and meeting up with Laurel and Craig at our apartment. After catching up on sleep some of us plan to head to the cathedral in Porto to get our credentials stamped and meet up with our friend John. Tomorrow is a day to explore Porto and late in the afternoon I’ll be hosting a geocaching event. I’m hoping to see some friends from the geocaching world that I haven’t seen in a while. Really looking forward to seeing what Porto has in store for us!