Just Keep Swimming! - Day Two

It's about 6:00pm here, so I believe it's about noon back in Madrid. 

I'm posting a little early tonight, because I have to cook dinner, then go to bed!

Our crew leaves our lovely little apartments at 7:00am Croatia time, or 1:00am Madrid time for Montenegro.

By the way, these are our apartments: 

I only have a rough idea as to what we are doing tomorrow in Montenegro, so I won't talk much about that until we get back tomorrow evening. 

Just so everyone knows, Montenegro is the country directly south of Croatia, it's also a coastal country, so the drive should be beautiful! 

Before I get into what we did today, let me tell you about yesterday evening. 

Our crew went out for dinner at a small restaurant near our apartments. We ordered three pizzas, wine, beers, and water. The pizza was great, and the wine was even better (I didn't have any beer). Croatian wine is at least twice as strong as the wine back home, AND I learned this morning that Croats (people from Croatia) water their wine down. Needless to say... it hit me hard and quickly. Lesson learned! 

I didn't get any pictures of the food, I know... probably the first time I haven't photographed my food! ;) 

Today was our first day of classes! We have class on weekdays from 10-12, which in Madrid time is 4:00am-6:00am. Jet lag? YUP! 

Our classes are held in a beautiful building just outside the walls of the Old City in a building owned by RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology). Small world, right? 

Here it is: 

After classes we went out to lunch at a nice restaurant inside of the Old City (the very very old part of Dubrovnik). 

Unfortunately I was not all that hungry yet, but I still enjoyed my meal quite a bit! I had Bosnian Cevapi (sausage), fries, soup, and salad. 

Here is my lunch, and Kelsey's fish:

Afterwards we walked around the Stradun (main street of the Old City), all the way to the port. I was drooling over the architecture, and we barely saw any of buildings. We have a tour coming up within the test few days. 

Here is some of what I saw in the Old City/port:

Victor, Ethan, Paige, Emily, Kelsey, Philip, Ethan, and Robert

 Walls of the Old City

 Old City

These purple trees are everywhere! So beautiful.

 Quite a crowd! 

 See a below photo for a close up of the Latin. 

 Giant water fountain. 

The streets are paved with these polished pieces of limestone.

 Looking all over the place! 

I liked the shutters. 

 Shiny streets. 

 The alleys are designed to promote cool airflow from the sea. 

 Statues everywhere! 

 So much detail! 

Part of a church? I plan on going to mass there at some point. Croatia is a highly Catholic country. 

 Fish in the port. 

 Port. 

 My friend Emily. 

 In the distance you can see a hotel built for Mikhail Gorbachev. It was heavily damaged during the break-up of Yugoslavia. 

 Monk? 

 Barfing up some drinking water! 

 Aunt Susie should see this! 

 City walls. 

Cats wander the city.