Açores!

We made it to the Açores. We took 3 flights in one day. First from Boston to Pointa Delgado to San Miguel. Second from San Miguel to Terciera, and third from Terceira to São Jorge. The plane ride from Boston went by pretty quick. It only took about 4 hours. The flight was a little bit turbulent during some points but it wasn´t that bad. During the flight some lady got sick and started puking all the way in the front. We were about a half a football field away so I couldn´t really see what was happening. When we got to Pointa Delgado, San Miguel we got off the plane and were greeted by people in H1N1 masks. I don´t know if it was because that lady got sick or if they do that for every flight entering from the United States but it kind of sucked. We had to wait in line to fill out a form saying where we had been in the last month or so, where we are going to be staying and a lot of other information. Then they took our temperature. It was a bit of an inconvenience and we thought we weren´t going to make it to our plane. We eventually got done with that and took our flight to Terceira. We took a British ATP I think it was on our flights from San Miguel and Terceira. It was a plane with propellers but it was a decent size and sat about a hundred people. There was almost no turbulence on this plane and the takeoff and landings on these two flights were near perfect. When we got off the flight at Terciera we thought we were going to be late for our flight to São Jorge but we were actually had to wait an hour for boarding. We finally made it to São Jorge and waited for our baggage, which all came through. Once we had our baggage we walked through to the other part of the airport where we met our cousin Nellia and her husband Antonío(i think thats his name) met us. We took a quick drive from the airport to their home in Velas where we met Nellia´s son Tessío (I think thats his name) and her sister in-law Fátima. Their home is beautiful and they have a very nice view of the ocean. I was very tired at this point but I ate a nice meal with fresh bread, spagetti, and that oh so good stinky São Jorge cheese. One thing I noticed is that almost all of the electronics in their house is Samsung which is good. It was probably 1pm and I just crashed. I woke up at 9pm and my parents who didn´t go to sleep had just got back from their trip to visit the people making fresh bread at the fiesta. I had a nice little dinner, played my psp for an hour till the batteries ran out. Read my book for an hour and then fell asleep again. I didn´t wake up till about 9am. I don´t know how I slept for over 14 hours but I did. My dad took some video´s of the Portuguese women making bread and I will try to post that on youtube and put an embedded video under this. Other than that I have a few more pictures from Boston to add to another slideshow but they are on my laptop which is out of batteries and I can´t find the power converter to charge it. We also have a few pictures from our flight to São Jorge. You will have to give me a little time to get all this content up on here since there is a pretty good amount of it. The internet connection has a download speed of 1.5mbps but a 0.10mbps upload according to a speed test. My dad´s movies are really big files so I will probably have to compress them or just wait a long time for them to upload. Being that at home I don´t have anything close to highspeed internet this is heavenly. Well, I have to go visit Tío Eliás so I will try to get those video´s and pictures up as soon as I can. I don´t think spellcheck worked so pardon my bad spelling and grammar.