Croatia

Last night, we signed up for a day trip to Krka National Park. I heard about this place in school a really long time ago and thought it looked beautiful. Now, years later, I'm going there. It's a really cool feeling, actually. On the drive out there, we drove past an old palace on the hillside in Split. Game of Thrones used this palace for one of the cities. Split has a GOT museum, but I don't need to go after going to the main one when I was in Ireland. The national park was about a two hour bus ride from where we were staying. For about the last half hour it was a beautiful drive with some really blue water beside us surrounded by trees. I couldn't wait to get out and abandon the rest of the geriatrics on the bus and go do our own thing. The entry fee to the park was €20 but I lied and said I was a student and showed my health benefits card from work, and they accepted it, I'll take that. As soon as we got off the bus and the tour guide explained the map to us, Pearse and I jumped ahead of everyone. As soon as we stepped foot on the boardwalk, I looked at the crystal clear water to see tens of fish swimming. We ended up googling it and found out there were a couple of types of trout in the park. We were 5 steps in, and I had already found a spot I could just sit and watch all day. Just around the corner from there, we could hear tons of frogs croaking, so we ended up looking for them. They were pretty easy to spot in the swampy areas because their cheeks would balloon up every time they croaked. I caught one for good measure. Pretty early on into the hike, we had our first lookout point of the falls. It was stunning. We didn't stay too long because there was a group of real geriatrics that we kept getting stuck behind. It must have been a seniors only type of tour. It was painful walking behind them. Once we got in front of them, though the hike through the trees was almost as relaxing to me as a beach day. I loved the birds and the frogs while watching the fish. You can constantly hear watter from one of the seven falls at almost any point. It was perfect for me. When we got to the bottom, we found a pretty good spot to post up and take some really good pictures. We found a beer and sat close enough to the falls to still hear them and just chilled out. The falls were stunning from the bottom. It was everything I hoped for and more. The tour also included a small town called Skradin. We did a wine tasting for an extra €10. The wine was okay, but the person hosting the event didn't really give any information on what we were drinking. He also just looked like he didn't give a fuck. From there, Pearse and I went to lunch, where we only had 45 minutes to eat and get on the bus. I had chicken stuffed with ham. It was pretty good, I think. I had to eat it so fast I might not have tasted it. We cut it close, but we made it with 2 minutes to spare. We're pretty good at doing that. On the way back, both of us got a bit of rest on the bus. We had a pretty chill night planned, we were going to chill and split that 2l bottle between us and call it a night. Until we heard someone inside say they were canadian. We went inside to investigate, and sure enough, three other Canadians were chatting. One was from Edmonton, and the others were from sask. I'm pretty sure one of the sask boys lived in Shorewood Park before he moved to Vancouver. Once we started chatting and talking about the coincidences, we decided to pull out a deck of cards and play the drinking game sociables. Pearse and I quickly grabbed a mini keg of hieneken and came back. I've never played a game of sociables and been okay after. Tonight would not be any different. Pearse and I finished all 7 liters of beer we had by 10 pm. The hostel closed the common area at 10, so we decided to go out to the bars. At the first bar, the doctor bought everyone a jager bomb, which would be the end of me. I was hiccuping and sweating. I knew I didn't need or want anything other than my bed. I ended up walking back to the hostel way before everyone and went to bed. Sociables is my biggest enemy. 10/10 will play it againRead more