How We Managed to Rent a Boat, Sink It, and Wreck it On the Rocks...

Well, that would have been a good story, but since Caitlin wasn't with us...

It goes more like this...

We visited Lake Bled in Slovenia, and enjoyed the castle and walking around the lake.  There is a small island in the middle of the lake that you can ferry over to if you want.  To have someone take you over there is fairly expensive.  To rent a rowboat and go over yourself is fairly cheap.  Plus you get the rewarding experience of pulling yourself across the water.  Once we got settled into a rhythm, we were practically pros.  We parked by the dock, explored the island (it's tiny), and then proceeded to row back to shore.  The trick was, after approaching the dock on the mainland, you had to turn the boat around, and then back right up into the parking space, which was a little notch just large enough for the boat.  Ready for it?  We couldn't have done it more perfectly.  We slid right into that notch with grace finesse.  So it makes for a more boring story, but we were rather proud of ourselves, so there you go.

And now, for some pictures of Lake Bled.  Only a few.  Because really we have thousands. Well, maybe hundreds.  Okay, dozens.  Of that little thing called a castle.  On the cliff.

Here is a little person I like to call me, in the castle on the cliff at Lake Bled in Slovenia in Europe.  Can't remember which planet.  I liked the orange leaves.  Because they're orange.
This was also at the castle.  The roots of the tree looked spiffy cool.  Elizabeth also looked spiffy cool.  As always.
This was what the trash cans looked like around Lake Bled.  Very cool.  I suspect that they're yelling, "GOOBS!!!" but I can't prove anything.
The infamous boat that I told you about.  And those two people are us.  Very proud of us.  And very crunchy.
The purty castle.  Through more orange leaves.

Other than that...well, our hostel was fabulous.  We got a wonderful, traditional, home-cooked meal...four courses.  We also walked around Ljubljana (which we fondly refer to as Lbljbl ((LIH-buhl-jih-buhl), which is the capital of Slovenia.  They had some cool folklore, and some interesting sites...mostly we just walked around for a few hours.  And met the nicest postal employee in the world.  We toasted our completion of Slovenia with cocktails, and headed next into Greece...with a few stops along the way... (dun dun dun...)