As promised, here are some pictures from our visit to the “museu do pão”. The adventure started right away as we tried entering the parking lot and a guy with a walkie-talkie told us to wait as there were cars descending. The lane up to the place was literally that tiny…they had men manning the road at the entrance and exit 
Michael wasn’t thrilled about having to parallel park nearly perpendicular, but he did a fabulous job…and thankfully, our parking brakes did a wonderful job as well Here is Henry trekking up to our final destination…
The first room just had examples of all the equipment used to make and store and sell bread through the years. I like this little old “bread delivery bike”.
Then there was a room for “bread in Religion and Politics”. At first I thought it was kind of strange, not gonna lie, but I guess I get it. It is used in many religious sacraments AND in lots of old political campaigns…I mean, what do people want most except assurance of their “daily bread” (food). They had all kinds of old posters and such using featuring bread, but I just felt wierd taking pictures in this room, so, moving on. On our way to the next room they had this wall with the word bread in every language…pretty cool.
There was then an ADORABLE cafe inside, but we were out of money at this point, so we didn’t stop, nor did I get a picture (which is a true shame). Here is a beautiful old calendar though (from 1946 obviously) depicting the different phases of harvesting wheat and/or grains.
Then they had a special section showing off ALL the different types of bread in Portugal. Every region/city has a specialty…it’s kind of crazy how many different types there are for such a small country. One thing they have LOTS of variety in.
And several other little “bread tidbits” here and there…blah, blah, blah…but it really was interesting to see what an important role bread plays in everyday life all over the world. Then, we headed off to the little kid section where each of the kids got to make a little bread souvenier. They loved it.
I just love when Calvin is working hard and has the tongue out They also had an adorable little “general store” looking gift shop where you could buy bread and honey and jam. It kind of reminded me of cracker barrell.
I’m not sure how old this building is, but they way is was done up was really beautiful. I was highly impressed with the attention to detail here.
One last pic of all our happy kids…I mean, what a day…snow, puppies AND a fun museum! They are such cuties!
