Day 4 Plitvice and Zadar

As you may have read, it’s basically nature. Lots of nature. Waterfalls, hiking, turquoise lakes, hiking, steep cliffs, hiking, dirt, plants and lots of other things that grow. And kids and dogs. But, I made it through. Just to be clear, there was no fainting. The guest bloggers were just being dramatic. I think they were hoping I’d faint but I didn’t.

Ideally we’d publish pictures to this thing, but we’ve had some struggles getting pictures from our camera to our laptop. Before I wrote this update, I was reading the camera book. Its possible that I was supposed to format the SD card before taking pictures on it. So…well, that’s my bad. Anyway, if you see the pictures, you’ll probably enjoy them, because I am probably the only person who gets bored of waterfalls. Mostly, I just wanted a coffee.

Speaking of coffee…When we got to the top, I really wanted coffee. I know it was hot, but the morning coffee was pretty terrible, so I hadn’t quite quenched my craving. I saw folks drinking coffee at the end of the hike, and yes, I thought it was very refreshing. Until the ice cream girl knocked it out of my hands and all over me. Not an ounce of espresso was on the ground, it was all over my shirt. Incidentally, it’s a good thing I changed shirts. I was wearing a black Bryant-Lake Bowl earlier in the day, but didn’t think it was an appropriate shirt for nature.
So, I changed into a Kellogg t-shirt that I wore inside out. Thank God. Since, its now ruined and covered in espresso. The good news is that she felt bad and bought me another espresso. Now, off to Zadar.

You might be thinking, “why zadar.” The answer is, “mostly because we thought it was a cool name.” We found it was so much more.
But, first, accommodations. I had booked us in “the only apartment in the old town.” We spent about 2 hours driving around the old town trying to find, “a gate with a lion.” We finally found this gate with a lion and I met up with a nice woman who had been guiding us to the gate with the lion. She took me to see her apartment…It was old, rusty, there was no air conditioning or elevator to our fifth floor rooms. It didn’t look clean, the beds didn’t look great. I was just not happy. So, we left to find accommodations that better suited our needs. We found those at the hotel Albin. The staff was friendly; the rooms were clean and nice. It was 10 times better than the other place. And, it was about 15 minutes from the old town. We had dinner at their restaurant, which was again, FANTASTIC. We had drinks at the LA café down the street where they played a combination of random Tupac, Croatian rap, Lionel Ritchie, Billy Joel and some sort of live Croatian Celine Dion (the Croatian version of her is about as bad).