Day 21: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Sumner

\[FIGURE OUT\]

. Then we talked about their lives, what they did for a living besides rent parts of their house and do what they were doing for us today, where they went to school. We told them about ourselves. There was an instrument on the wall and we inquired about it they turned on a traditional song and it used that instrument in it. As we were listening to it all of a sudden the grandma and the dad were up dancing! Mom described it as looking like a traditional Greek dance. After having the windfall meal we made our way back to the ship. Today there was a church service and so went to that before our dinner. Before that though I played a few games of ping-pong with Angus. I actually beat him once (he beat me three times though). In between he service and dinner I talked to Noah and Elijah’s mom about what we had done for the day and then watched put the window as we left the port. After that nothing much of interest happened, the boys were just going to dinner as we were coming out so I have just been trying to write this blog post. I am glad that I have some time in which to do this through because Dubrovnik is such a neat city.

    ~Sumner

Hannah

Today we went to Dbrovnik Croatia. we did something REALLY fun. We got to have lunch with a family from Coatia. So the frst thing we did today was got ready REALLY fast. After the “normal” getting ready’s, we got off the boat as fast as we could, because we did not know if the lines would be long. We actually got there when there was NO line at all!!! We got on the pier and waited for our lady. Her name was Tanja. (Tahn-yah) she was VERY tall. The first place we went with Tanja was a hill where ther was a VERY pretty view of the old town. (It is REALLY cool because the WHOLE old town had a wall that went ALL the way around the town. After we looked at the pretty veiw and took some pictures, we went to the old town. It was REALLY pretty. It was cool to see that when Croatia had the war with Bosnia and Hertzagavina, only a few houses stayed in tacked. Tanja was about 17 when the war happened. It was awesome to be with a ladie that was a witness of war and bombs. It was amazing that her house was not bombed because ALL of the houses around hers were distroyed, but her house was not even touched. While we were in the town, some ethnic groups from Macedonia and the far eastern part of Croatia did some traditional songs and dances. It was REALLY fun to watch them. If you notice, A LOT of the churches in Europe are either Roman Catholic or Greek Orthadocts. But there are SOME Christian churches. (Why? Because in a lot of places the Christians were prosicuted and punished.) After seeing the old town, we went on our way to the house where we were to have lunch. The family that we went to, also rents out apartments. (You see, when they built their house, they turned part of it into 5 different apartement rooms. Although, you CAN turn 4 of them into one HUGE apartment. they were SO friendly. the host and hostess were Ana and Dovelr.they had a daughter that was 17. Her name was Nicolia. She was REALLY pretty and nice. She also spoke English VERY well. the cook was the grandma. For our first course we had dried ham and a cheese that was A LOT like parmesean cheese in texture and in taste. We also had pickles and bread. For our second course, we had HOMEMADE chiken noodle soup. Even the noodles were homemade. AFter the soup,course or the entree. we had the main It was called bell stew. Why it was called that was because the way they made it was in a thing that looked A LOT like a bell. First thing you do is put any kind of meat into a BIG round (and flat) pot thing. You then put the “bell” over the pan, and put haot coals around and on top of the “bell” Let it cook for about 2-3hrs, and you have a yummy stew. There were two different kinds of dessert. One was kind of like a cherry strudel. and the other was called a creme carmel. It was a lot like creme brulee. I only had the carmel thing. They also had LOTS of cherries. After dessert, we had to leave. It was REALLY fun getting to meet that family. We went to the boat afterwards. Had a quick snacky lunch, and went to play ping pong. Wejust did the normal stuff the rest of the evening.