Thursday, June 5th, 2008 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Today we left for Slovania. Our flight was at 10:15 a.m. and we arrived at 11:55 am. Mark was there to greet us at the airport. Some background...We met Mark & Petra in 2004 in Cozumel when we took Kasey there for his graduation scuba diving trip. We exchanged email info. with them and the next year they stopped through Texas, along with Mark's parents, Joe & Angela, on their way to Vegas for a conference Joe was attending. Joe has a business, Racman Technologies (I believe). He manufacturers CD's and DVD's. Angela is a doctor (General practitioner), Petra has completed her studies in law and works for a Notary at a law firm. And Mark is still studying to be a doctor - not sure which field yet, but he's going to be very successful in whatever field he chooses.



















Heeeeerrrrrreeee's Mark!


When we arrived the weather was rainy and around 63 degrees. Our first stop was to visit Joe's place of work. The tour was very interesting and reminding John of his days at Cypress Semi. with the sputtering, targets, etest, etc.. Afterwards we walked across the street to a small shop called "STOP" and had tea/coffee. Corey asked for a hot chocolate. There's is like a chocolate bar melted in a glass with whip cream on top. Very thick ....Corey was quite happy. I feared he'd never sleep again!




















Joe's business facility.










Here is Corey with one of the workers on his left and Joe on his right. They're letting him press the button on a heavy duty paper slicer.









Later we went to lunch at CAD (with a small "v" over the "C") and Petra, Angela and Joe later joined us. We were told that the food was not typical Slovenian food, instead it was more Siberian. There was lots of meats (minced, pork, cheese steak) and even horse. Yes, we ate horse. There was also plenty of cheese. In particular a butter cheese and squares of feta. We also had baked beans, grilled paprika peppers and huge disc's of bread - kinda like pita, but not hollowed out.






















Angela had to leave us temporarily to meet with a "roach vendor" before he closed shop. She buys the roaches and some grass hoppers to feed her neice's chamileon. After lunch we parted from Joe & Angela and drove through Ljubljana (capital of Slovenia and where they live) with Mark & Petra to see the city. We hiked to the top of Ljubljana's castle to get a better view of the city. It's surrounded by hills; very beautiful.










































































Afterwards we had tea and dessert (local dessert is Gibanica - fabulous) at a place called the Tea House. They then took us to our hotel Bajc. Unique and nice place.















Our bed.



























Corey's bed. Bath, TV and desks are on other side of the room.