Showing posts with label slovenia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slovenia. Show all posts

Sep 18, 2008

Little Trip to Ljubljana, Slovenia

After we lost Nanny last week the stress of not being able to be home with family got to us a little bit. So we decided to take a short little trip to Ljubljana, the capitol of Slovenia. It's not too far from us and so we drove up there to take a look-see. The drive was beautiful and pretty eventful.
After about 30 minutes into the drive we met these nice folks along the road side.

Oh it's been so long since we have had a conversation with these people that we were in shock.
After getting to know them a bit we decided we better do as they ask. We followed them to the nearest town, that wasn't actually near at all and proceeded to take care of the ticket the way you do when your in a foreign country. I videoed some of the fun, below. As always I hate the way I sound, I'm sad to hear that I haven't lost my Texas accent, but oh well.





People in Europe have no problem staring. Actually there's not a lot of entertainments here so I guess that's the entertainment. I'm sad to say I have taken to watching people while I drink coffee in town too but I'm more discreet.



Oh we saw this sign at one of the petrol stations. If you know that the NA means ON it's pretty funny. It actually reads, Coffee On the Potty. Aww, how funny!

The little lift thinggy to the top of the hill. Cool!
Over the city if Ljubljana stands a small mountain with the old town castle atop it. This is a view from the top of the little elevator thinggy.We found this guy on one of the stairs going into the castle, and no I didn't pet it!
Very pretty picture, lovely!
Another view of the town from above, very European and very clean.

There is a really pretty river running around the castle hill. Alone one side it's lined with shops of all kinds, had to take a look.

Up at the castle with my honey!
For those of you who have never been to Europe, the one thing Europe has that the US doesn't is thousands of ways to flush the toilet. Really, everything from push button, to step on stopper, pull string and tons more. Anyhow, I thought it was funny and the bowl itself was clean that's odd!
Do I easily amuse of what. This is the catch inside the bathroom door, it's was totally heavy and the knob was larger than my hand. I'm just thinking what is it necessary to have such heavy-duty latches on the inside of the stall? I mean who's going to try to break in and why???
I had to catch this shot. It the sign at the entrance of the castle. It plainly says that you are not allowed to drive your car, climb on the rails, ride your bike or walk on the grass but they graciously allow you to bring your dog and pick your nose! HA!
The family, typically American, see the caps!
With my window obsession, I love this one. See how old it is and where the old hinges used to be to cover this window. Surely some poor prisoner was inside there at one time. Ohh spooky!
Another shot!
Any yet another.
And one more, actually this one is a great one. Those are the Alps you see in the distance. Just north of Slovenia is Austria.
The kiddos.




A few from inside the castle. One part is now used for a bistro and you can tour the whole place, almost.

HEADING HOME...

Apr 23, 2008

Weekly Post and Bloggy Break!

It seems like lately I've been making only 1 post a week. Things have slowed down a bit and I'm so enjoying the wonderful weather. We've been in the yard everyday mowing, hoeing, and the kids have even been doing their school outside on the patio table. I LOVE the spring! It's awfully hard to be in nature and not see God everywhere. He sure did a good job when He created everything, nature itself declares the glory of God!

Oh yea this morning when I was waking the children up I took this quick picture of Hannah, she's 10 but she's still my baby girl. Oh yea and she sleeps with a whole herd of babies.

Today we went back to Slovenia to buy a few groceries and you'll never guess what we found. Okay I'll tell you, BOWLING! Really a real American bowling alley. We went inside and found out it opens tomorrow and we can't wait to take the family. It's 16 € for 1 hour of play. You can rent shoes for a little more than 1 € but the catch is; you have to buy special socks to wear when renting shoes and you can only buy the socks there. Hmm, pretty smart huh?

Oh yea and I took this picture of the kids at church the other day. I sure love these kids. The big boy in the back is mine and the cute white faced little girl in the middle is Hannah, she's mine too. Anyhoo, I just thought I would share them with you, they sure are special!



Hey guess what, Sew Mama Sew is still having her Tutorial Contest
and she has some wonderful tutorials. It's totally worth checking out. Fire up that old Singer and let us see what you can do!


Well I'm so tickled, guess what's about to happen? My best friend is coming to Croatia. I know you've heard me talk about it a lot, well I'm kinda excited. They fly into Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday morning and then we'll bring then back to lovely Croatia. They, Pastor Rasbeary , his wife, and Bro. Petulant will be here for 11 days. So I won't be posting much if any while they're here but I'll be back soon with lots of pictures and stories to tell.

Take care my bloggy friends, and I'll be back in a few!