Tuesday, October 14, 2014

That's a wrap... for now

   Ok we're back home now, yes I think we still consider the Tri cities home. We're staying at the winery with John and Ann. Whew, the first couple of days home, the jet lag was brutal, I've been tired before but wow I've never had headaches before. Our connections home were kind of tight and one flight was late, so our backpacks didn't make it with us, but they came the next day, no problem.
   So let's back track a bit, back to Ljubljana. I forgot to mention that they had a couple other exhibits at Postojna that we saw, one was of the cave creatures that they have found over the years, ok I'm not saying they weren't in the aquariums, I'm just saying we couldn't find most of them, yes I know most of them were small, but still, if I was a local watching the tourists pointing at stuff that wasn't there, I would be laughing my ass off.
What do you mean you can't see it?! It's right next to that clump of dirt by the big rock.
I still don't see it, you mean that brown thing over there?
Yes! See it just moved!
Oh yeah I see it now!
Laughing my ass off.
  The other thing we signed up for was the butterfly exhibit, OK I understand this kind of thing is somewhat hypocritical of me, cause I'm fine with Aquariums and butterfly exhibits, but I find zoos just sad and depressing, but I love butterflies...except this was not butterflies flying around in a tropical jungle, nope. This is hundreds of butterflies crucified on pins and trapped behind glass, horrifying, You can hear their dying screams for miles away...sad and depressing.
   We did go see another set of caves, I can't remember the name of them right now, but I seem to remember if you put 2 golf balls in your mouth and say chinese checkers, I think that's pretty close.These were beautiful as well, not as dramatic as the ones in Postojna, but this one had an underground river going through it, pretty cool.
   We stayed in Ljubljana for 5 days and I think we either ate sushi or sandwiches from a sandwich shop we found every day. Weird Glen! I know huh.
  Then it was on a bus to Bled, which is a lake up in the mountains with this monastery built on an island in the middle of the lake. This town is small, but they were over run with tourists. I was really curious to know what all these Asian tourists were told when they booked their trip. Oh yes you get to see every church and castle in Slovenia, almost all of them are 3 or 4 miles up a hill, but remember the other half is down hill. They do start to all look the same, but you can take pictures anyways.
  From Bled we made our way back to Zagreb to catch our flight home. We got some great news the day we got back, my sister Brenda had another baby boy, Riley. Welcome to the world nephew. So we are off to Vancouver for a bit of a visit and then back here to get organized for the next part of our journey...Nicaragua.

Love and Warm thoughts from Benton city

Carrie and Glen

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