Starvation

OoPs.  I almost got them loaded correctly.  Hmmm...maybe next time I'll manage.

This is Plitvice.  And so is the next one.  It would have been beautiful enough if there were just paths around the lakes, but they've built wooden walkways that actually go over them and around the falls.  It was absolutely amazing!

This is Heidelberg, which was actually before Plitvice, but whaddaya do?  This was a view from the Philosophers' Walk, next to Heidelberg Castle.
I liked the leaves.  They were orange.  So who wouldn't pose with them?  This was at Heidelberg Castle as well.
Here is a statue of a folk jester and entertainer from Croatian folk oral tradition.  He was also a spokesperson for the common folk.  And he's also surrounded by flower stands.  He stands on the outskirts of the city market, which was very loud and busy, but entertaining as markets always are.
When we arrived at our guesthouse in Plitvice, our hostess offered us tea.  What we got was a cute tray with really good tea and some yummy little cakes.  It was lovely, and we felt very welcomed.
Another picture of Plitvice.  This was one of the most stunning viewpoints, in my opinion.  And Elizabeth's capture of the orange leaves could only be an improvement.  Fall just makes everything wonderful.
Apparently, Elizabeth had no idea she gave this kind of expression.  But she does it occasionally, and it always makes me laugh.  So now I finally have it captured in a picture.  Of course, we were ushered into a small box and whisked away through the Black Forest with no end in sight, and fog began to surround us, and I proceeded to channel Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka in the boat scene, so she might have had decent reason to be a bit frightened.
It seemed as though the Black Forest couldn't decide what season it wanted to be.  The higher up we got, the more wintery it was.  Go figure.  Of course, with all the snow, I was in heaven.
Once at the top of the ride, we walked around a little and then headed into the restaurant for some hot chocolate.  And when we asked for hot chocolate, the man said, "With rum?"  And I thought, haha, I'm not in the states anymore.  It was quite good, of course.  And the spoon was cool too.
Here's the Black Forest being all creepy.  The story Hansel and Gretel may have been based off of this forest, so of course it had to be creepy.
Here's the Heidelberg Castle again.  Elizabeth is pouting because we're up there.  And down there is a cannon.  That we can't reach.  And so she pouts.  Verily.  But I survived another day.  And there was much rejoicing.

Today was a fabulous day, as it was a much needed rest day.  It's been a very very long time since we had a day to just do nothing, so today we slept in, walked around a teeny bit, and mostly stayed in our room and recovered a bit from all the moving around.  Of course, we inadvertently starved ourselves too, but we'll survive.  The market closed early today, and we stayed in until later, and we didn't want to go out to the restaurant twice in one day, so we ended up just not eating anything besides chocolate until dinner time.  But before my numerous mothers freak out, we don't make a habit of that.  One need only look at the number of meal pictures I put up on this site to know that.  Well, tomorrow we'll catch a bus back to Zagreb, and then the train over to Slovenia.  La'uhs.