Adventures in CROATIA

My mom and I spent 2 weeks in Croatia. We did an REI adventure trip for 8 days which included days of hiking, biking and kyaking. Croatia is a beautiful country right on the Adriatic Sea with a variety of national parks. We spent days hiking around beautiful lakes and waterfalls, kyaking around islands and down river rapids, and biking around the countryside. The water is all crystal clear and an amazing blue color. The old cities were incredible, with the old city walls and cobblestone streets. We also spent a few days at the end relaxing and laying out in Split and Dubrovnik, enjoying a break from the group. I will post a slideshow of more pictures next since there were so many great ones. This is just a small sample...

The old city of Dubrovnik, looking from the wall over the city.

Kyaking down the river, and walking around the waterfall.

At the waterfalls in the national park near Trogir.

My mom and I on the wall in Dubrovnik... and yes sweating, as we were ALL week.

AZ, Yosemite and more

(I know I am so behind in catching up on my blog, and I don't have a good excuse at all)

The weekends following DC and Duck beach were my last 2 weeks for work! Now my plan was to quit my job, but when I went in to do so they wanted me to transfer to SD, since I told them I was moving there. But I told them that my plan was to take the summer off work... so they told me to take a leave of absence and then decide what I wanted to do. So technically I'm not "unemployed" right now... I'm just on a leave. And I sure have been living it up! But back then my last weekends were filled with a trip to AZ for Nathan's graduation and for Nate to meet the family... and then a weekend in Yosemite hiking half dome with a group of friends. We also had a fun saturday bbq out in Lake Elsinor at the Smart's house where friends from out of town came to visit. It was so fun to see everyone and to hang out in the inland empire!Nathan's HS graduation! This makes me feel old as my little brother is starting BYU in the fall!!

Nate and I at the speedway race track in AZ with Schuyler, Jason and Sean!

Schulyer and I at the gokart racetrack!

Nate and I about to head up the chains to get to the top... it was over an hour line just to start up the chains. And this picture makes it look easy when actually it was more like a 45 degree angle with sheer cliffs on either side.

My friends and I admiring the waterfall!

The view of the mist trail that goes right alongside the waterfall on the way to the top!

At the top of the cables about to head back down.

The whole group hanging out... ahh the good old belmont days

My favorite blondies... good memories from the days as roommies!