04/30/2012
Haha, well I threw my Damn bank card away. We arrived at the hostel on Thursday and went food shopping. I had leggings on and didn't feel like carrying my purse so I put my card inside my cigarette pack and stuck that inside my sports bra (please excuse that part gentleman, lol, I'm trying to explain what lead to me throwing away the card). So, we went to the store, bought groceries for the weekend and bought some prepared food so we could eat. We were starving! After we were done, we waited for the bus and ate some food. We went back to the hostel and since I had 1 cigarette left, I smoked it and threw the pack away. We went on with our night. Relaxed and listened to Music. The next day we decided would be dedicated only to relaxing and doing laundry. We hadn't taken a shower in 4 days cause of hitch-hiking and staying with the Turkish guys on our trip through Croatia. So, we did exactly that. Because we didn't go anywhere, we didn't need money and I didn't realize that I had lost my bank card. The next day we decided we would go for lunch in the city and sightsee a bit :) this was where everything changed.
We were ordering our food and went to pay, I opened my wallet and realized immediately that I was missing my card. My heart dropped. I kind of freaked for a second because I know how much money is on that card. That would have made someones freaking day to find it...and I know all to well what happens with credit card fraud and how quickly the money can disappear! We left as soon as I realized it and strayed re tracing our steps from the past few days. Since we were staying in the country, we figured the garbage can at the bus stop by the grocery store isn't emptied very often, so we walked back there and checked, no card. I starting thinking about when I had it last. In my cigarette pack, in my bra lol...which was in the trash in the hostel. So, we went back. I literally dove into the trash bin and started searching for the bag. Only problem is the trash is picked up daily!! WTF?!?! Where on earth besides Zagreb is trash collected daily!? So, no card. I checked the funds and all the money was safe and sound, still sitting there waiting to be used...by me...not some creep! So, I called and canceled the card, got a new account number and can use the card at least, just don't have it physically as of now. I'm taking care of that. We contacted my mom to tell her what was going on, she wired us $ pretty quickly. Now, we just had to go get it. It was 530pm when I left.
Danielle stayed back and mingled with other people in the hostel. I walked the 3 miles to the tram stop since there wasn't a bus coming for almost another hour. As you all know, I have some issues with staying awake on trains, buses, TRAMS, etc. I had to take the tram into the city. I tried hard not to pass out but I did eventually. Hahaha...I was woken up around 730pm by a nice woman who said "dear, this is the last stop". I just looked around, looked at the time and discovered I had passed out, not just through my stop but I possibly past my stop around 2-3 times according to my calculations. I feel asleep for 2 freaking hours! Funny shit...it would have been just fine but the only post office doing Western Union past 5 was not near where I was at all. I had to wait for another tram going back towards the city and haul ass to that post office before 8pm. I made it 5 after 8, even with running the entire way. Lol....now looking back it didn't really matter, we could have waited until the next morning, I'm not sure why I was running lol. I got there though, explained my situation and that I had no other money. The woman explained that she couldn't process ir though because the system was shut down after 8pm. While speaking with her, I complimented her on her eyebrows. She had very nice eyebrows, really. After a few more minutes of explaining what happened, she finally said she would turn the system back on and do it!! I'm not sure if it was her just feeling bad, the eyebrow comment or that she was just a nice person. Either way, she did it :)
I decided to get Danielle and I some dinner. I saw the time the last bus was going to the hostel from the tram stop and figured I had 10th mins to order a quick burger, get on the next tram and make the bus so I didn't have to walk another 3 miles back to the hostel. It would have been all good excpet that the tram was running late. So, I missed the bus and had to walk to the hostel. Lol! I just laughed when I realized what was going on. I finally made it and Danielle got to laugh at me for quite a while. All the girls in the hostel told her not to worry and said maybe I had met a Croatian man and went for drinks lol....not....Danielle knows me much better than that. But the idea sounded much better than what I had just gone through trying to get the money. What should have taken 1 hour, took me 5! I saw Zagreb at night and that was nice. It's a beautiful country and Zagreb is a really cool city. For being the capital you don't feel the dame hustle bustle feel that you normally do in capital cities.
We are on the train going from Croatia to Slovenia right now. I'm going to go to sleep. I only got 4 hours last night. I'm tired. Miss you all!! Xoxo
05/03/2012
Wow, about 2 more weeks and we will have been gone for 5 months! Craziness! We are on the bus on the way to Belgrade. We left Ljubljana at 10 this morning. We arrive at 6ish. What an amazing time we had in Slovenia! The girls we met at the hostel in Zagreb and then met up with in Ljubljana are such wonderful women! They were nice, outgoing, full of energy and just as excited to hang out with us as we were with them.
The first night we arrived, Tea, Eva and Jasna are their names. Tea and Eva are sisters. Jasna is a great friend of theirs. Jasna met us at the train station and walked us around the city, showed us the center and some other cool spots in the city. That first night we all had dinner at Eva's house. They prepared dinner. Before we all went out, they brought out a cake with a candle for Danielle and we all sang happy birthday!! It was one of the kindest things someone has done for us on this trip! The fact that they went out thirty way to do that was impressive!! They gave Danielle a magnet of Ljubljana. She was very very happy. It was so nice. Eva did Danielle's makeup! She looked great!! We all went to the top of this massive hill near the city. It's something everyone in the city does for labor day. There's music, food, drinks and the biggest bon fire I've seen!! We met different people but drank mostly :) ...it was a stupendous evening! Lots of fun was had with us and the girls!
The next day we all relaxed!! We never made it back to our hostel the night before, that was a waste of money lol. We just paid to keep our bags somewhere pretty much. We met our CS host and brought our stuff to his dorm room. He was so cool! He is only 20 but was the most mature 20 year old guy I have ever met, seriously! He needed to study so we left our stuff and took off with the girls to the park. We slept, chatted and ate some snacks. That night we had some great conversations with our host. He told us of his hitch-hiking experience the week prior to the coast. The next day our host needed to study some more so we let him have his space for the day and walked the city with the girls. Before this though, we went to Eva's house for breakfast. They cooked a real American breakfast!! Eggs, bacon and toast! Mmmmm! We told that was one of the things we missed the most from home, just eating a normal American breakfast. So Tea offered to cook! I couldn't have thanked them enough! We went up to the castle above the city. We had great views of Ljubljana! The castle was cool too! It has been used for different things since it was first built in the 13th century. It was used as a prison for some time, I thought was neat. Also, they had a gallery with pieces of some of the original wall and painting. Overall it was a nice day!
We went back to Eva's house for lunch and I cooked them tortilla española. They loved it! They had never had it! I saved some for our host. That last night was difficult to say good bye to the girls. Danielle and I have learned how hard it is to say good bye to people we meet along the way. It sucks. There's no other way to explain the feeling. We become FB friends with many of the people and this is nice. But, we don't know if we will ever see any of these people again. And that's what sucks. The fact that they entered our lives and were apart of our journey is what matters though. Also, in life, if I am ever able to see any of them again, I would!
We just passed a field of flowers and the electrical poles were tree barks! So cool!
Sorry back to my story...lol...so we said bye to the girls and went to hang out with our host for the night. He invited some other students over and we all hung out and drank wine and spoke for hours. One of the guys had gotten some Chinese wine from a family friend. He shared it with us. It tasted like sweet teriyaki and soy sauce, mixed?! If that makes sense. It was alright. I had drank way way to much for Danielle's birthday so having one glass of the teriyaki/soy sauce wine was just fine for me! We are on the bus very close to the border or Croatia and Slovenia right now. We are nervous because Slovenia is Shengen. We have only been here for 4 days so hopefully they see that and think we just came for the holiday week and are leaving...we shall see.
Today before we left our host, he gave us a sandwich, bananna and apple for each of us. So thoughtful! He knew we would be on the bus for 8 hours! He was a really cool guy! Very smart! Well, guess what I'm going to do...sleep lol...I'm getting tired. Miss you all!! Xoxo
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