We ended up at the Faro shopping mall past the airport. It's funny that no matter where we are, women seem to have the uncanny ability to sniff out a shopping mall even in unknown territory. Matt was so excited!!! Ha, Ha!
This was a very nice shopping center with a huge supermarket in it called Jumbo. The stores were on two levels surrounding a huge outdoor courtyard. There was a cinema, lots of different stores, a hair salon and a food court as well.
We went to see a matinee, The Golden Compass, it was great, the first theatre movie we have seen in months. All of the movies here are in English with Portuguese subtitles. There is even a tiny little theatre in Vilamoura and they show their one movie a week in English. WAY better than Spain, we could only find one theatre in Pto. Banus that showed an English movie and they only had one, the rest were in Spanish.
We had a great afternoon of shopping (I found some boots), movie watching and a food court dinner. Bought some groceries, we are actually cooking here! And then the trek home in the dark. We made it!
This is a pic of the courtyard in the centre of the mall all decorated for Christmas.
Yes this is a skating rink. There is actually a rink in the mall courtyard and the kids seemed to be having a ball. Just like West-Ed!
Matt beside the rink at the mall in Faro, they had just cleared all the people off to clean the ice. Does he look excited about shopping? New hair cut too!