bleh

Both Ingrid and I are burning out on traveling so it is a good thing I'll be home in less than a week.

So, after Mostar....we went to Plitivice Lakes National Park in Croatia--pretty but I didn't feel like it was any bit prettier than most of the Sierra Nevadas. I guess I am just spoiled.

After that we went to Zagreb which was incredibly boring. We spent most of our time in this huge bookstore with a massive English section. It was so strange reading all those books, we both forgot we were abroad. The other highlight of Zagreb was the Naive Art Museum--an awesome (but sadly quite small) museum filled with works by untrained peasant artists. Very cool and totally made Zagreb's slowness worth it.

After Zagreb we headed to the lovely Lake Bled region of Slovania. And man, do I ever want to go back. I'm gonna try to convince my parents that they want to vacation there--just so crazy beautiful and there is a lot to do. We both really wish we had cut down our time in Croatia and spent more time in both Slovania and Bosnia. Oh, well.

So yea, Bled. A beautiful area with a lovely lake and great desserts. Yum. There is a summer toboggan run where the ski slope is and we went down the toboggans. There are also a bunch of activities--you can rent boats (which we also did), go scubaing in the lake, mountaineering, and canyoning. I barely convinced Inga to go canyoning with me and it was good but it was a beginners thing. I want to go on the advanced. I have no issues jumping from heights or with zip lines or any of that jazz. I wanted to do the more advanced excursion but there wasn't time. All in all an awesome place and def one of the highlights of our trip.

We are currently back in Croatia...bummer. Before even getting back here we realized that we were over Croatia and we feel like we have exhausted it, but here we are, in Pula. So we have two more days here---today we are taking it easy and tomorrow we got to a nearby city that is supposed to be more exciting. After that we head back to Italy (to Bologna) and I head home after 3 nights there. Wow. I'm sad it is coming to an end, cos it has been really fun traveling with Inga and we have been getting along swimmingly, but I'm also so looking forward to just passing out in a cool room with a comfy bed and sleeping for days. My body and brain our tired. We have met so many people who travel for months and months and I have no idea how they can do that. Three months abroad and I am hankering for a comfy bed, air conditioning, and my brothers. Oh, well.

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