Maribor part 2

We left the waterfront when we got to the world’s oldest noble grapevine! It said it has been growing grapes for over 400 years! So that was fun and then the area right by that inland some had some fun art! And there are so many event spaces so in the evening I bet it is way busier (there was like no one there when we were there - we were wandering by ourselves). We wandered the rest of the town (it not really that big, but was nice to walk around in) and got some ice cream to cool off before we headed back to the car - chocolate for Raymond and green apple and lemon for me. These were “1 scoop” which was so much!! Really the lady did like 4 scoops with the ice cream scoop for each one! We should have shared one, but it was nice I was able to get 2 flavors in “one” scoop.

We headed on to camp for the night in Prodnik which is really just the camp, a sports center and restaurant, and a handful of houses. It is right on the river so of course we walked along there a bit and found a snake friend! After we finished dinner and did all of our chores a crazy thunderstorm came on us. We saw all the flashes and heard the thunder coming and then suddenly it was pouring so much! And at one point it somehow started raining more, but the thunder and lightning didn’t go right over us just nearby. I can still hear the thunder and see flashes even though the rain has stopped for a just now, but it was crazy rain! Luckily that also cooled it off so much which was so nice! It is cold now which I much prefer to the hot and humid it was earlier! All in all this was a pretty great first day in Slovenia! Tomorrow we head off for our first hike which should be fun!Läs mer