Phrases to Remember

Some phrases and happenings that will keep this trip in our memories.

• Joe - the name we gave all the cows in the Azores. Cows were on very steep hillsides and we joked about “Joe rolling down the hill, eating Joe for dinner, etc. 
• Number Me/ Roman numerals - walking the streets and having the boys transpose Roman numerals and vice versa  
• Drake scared of dogs - lots of dogs in Portugal and Spain and they seemed to like D-man (of course) 
• “Cheater” - what D-man called me for a lot of the trip after I killed him in cribbage 
• Sala - a player for Egypt and a word we see a lot while in Spain 
• 50, 100, naked - Matthew’s explanation of Spanish beaches - how far you go from the center gets you more privacy and eventually to naked people 
• Beer vs. ice cream - counting Cruz Campo vs. the standard ice cream sign through our Cádiz and Tarifa (it was a tie) 
• Mee-tro - the name given to the Paris subway 
• Free umbrellas - we found two of them in Paris - one on the trash and one on the subway. 
• Obligelato - the combination of thank you in Portuguese and Gelato 
• “I’ve got no boots”  - my  version of “I’ve got no roots” with a British spin for the Boots pharmacies all around (both boys hate this song)
• Pastéis de Belém, Gelato, churros, ice cream bars, crepes - sweets, sweets and more sweets. 
• “If you like eating yellow lemon bites” - the PG version “if you like making love at midnight.” The phrase worked well in Paris as our Airbnb had lemon yellow bites and we “caught in the rain.” 
• The shield - with our last British Pounds at the airport we were able to secure a 2 pence coin to complete the shield made by the 1 penny, 2 pence, 5 pence, 10 pence and 20 and 50 pence pieces. 

And a couple phrases I snapped from our London leg of the trip that sum up this amazing 3 weeks: 

And a good reminder from Marshall 

And “Enjoy the Ride” (you can see the part of the message on Marshall’s shirt)