Weekend of Wall Walking

See photo slide show at end of BLOG 2, the photos follow the BLOG.

Finally, Bill and Maya arrived on April Fool's Day.  Bill's suitcase did not arrive, it was the usual "Welcome to Croatia".  The next morning Croatian Air brought Bill's suitcase to our apartment. Bill and Maya are adapting well.  Maya spent many hours exploring the apartment, the 2 balconies, and the real working shutters.  Croatian's use their shutters, they close them for warmth and light control, they have little cranks to open the louvers and mounts outside to keep them from flapping in the wind. When they are closed, the room is pitch dark.

Spring also arrived this weekend, and all the flowers burst open and the big cruise ships arrived.

On Saturday I took my class by bus back to the city of STON, where we all got sunburned, walked on walls, and drank beer and ate oysters.  Today, the Art History teacher took my class on a private tour of the great wall of Dubrovnik.  It was Palm Sunday, and every time she started talking, one of the church's bell towers would ring. It was a great privilege to go on this tour with her, because she was one of the people in charge of the restoration of Dubrovnik after the war.  After the tour we went home to do laundry, Croatian's do nor use dryers, so I have to plan the laundry with the weather.  Princess Maya complains "the towels are hard, stiff." I am getting better at hanging, I no longer have pointy tips coming out of my t-shirt shoulders.

Tonight we went for a stroll down the promanade that goes right in front of our apartment.  Toward the beach there was a small inflatable gym (big bouncy blow up slides for kids).  Maya went in and started jumping with the girls to Croatian Rock and Roll, before long she had 3 girl friends, who seemed to know some English. More adventures to come. Maya is going to start her own BLOG next week, be warned, it might be all street cat photos.