Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

What we did
⁃    Woke up at 7am feeling alive after our big Euchre victory, despite the 5 hours of sleep and pounding hangovers trying to convince us otherwise.  Easily our most comfortable bed so will say peeling ourselves out was not easy.
⁃    Took a Bolt ride to the airport to pick up our rental for the next 8 days - upgraded to a nice Jaguar SUV! The boujieness continues
⁃    In classic "us" style, we were trying to overcommit and hit both KRKA and Plitvice national parks today. Also, in classic "us" style we ended up behind schedule and decided to just do Plitvice. The two are supposed to be very similar, with KRKA being a little smaller and more crowded.
⁃    We did a three hour drive and then couple hour hike of Plitvice which was incredible! Consistently surprised with how pretty each new location is. Glad we haven’t gotten desensitized to the amazing views yet. The wooden pathway trail weaves through and across a series of greenish blue lakes and forest waterfalls.  Such a cool walk! Will let the pictures do it justice.
⁃    Very happy that its shoulder season as this place would have been absolutely chaotic with tourists. As it was, we had to bob and weave around 7 busloads of Asian tourists taking pictures of every leaf and squirrel along the way
⁃    We had a couple hour drive into the seaside town Rijeka to crash. First and last time we’ll let ourselves drive these roads in the dark but we made it! Nothing bad happened at all, just tough navigating croatian road signs and one-ways at night.
⁃    Picked up some Thai food to eat in the room (very nice room!) while we tossed on some Netflix and crashed real early.

Where we ate
⁃    Hungover Trent ate a bag of chips for breakfast before getting out out of bed. Grabbed some bars and fruit for the road trip breakfast along the way
⁃    The night before we picked up sandwiches from “Sandhich bar Rizzo” in Split
⁃    Dinner of takeout thai from Sabai - Pad Thai, cashew chicken and suuuuper spicy thai curry. Most spice we’ve had all trip and loved it! Feeling alive again

Fun facts
⁃    On our drive we felt like in the span of two hours we went from Florida to Wisconsin.  Our Mediterranean/Adriatic days are over! Welcome to fall and changing foliage
⁃    BAC while driving is 0% if under 25 and only .05 if above it!Read more