Finally…

So we have been super busy for the last two weeks. My friend Maggie came to visit us on the 6^th which was so much fun. She had to sleep in our breakfast nook which is pretty comfy but right in the kitchen. This meant she was woken up every morning by the sound of either breakfast being made or hot water for coffee/tea (looking back that doesn’t sound to bad). We got to do all the touristy things I wasn’t aloud to when we first got here. This meant souvenir shopping, looking at horrible little chachkies and admiring over priced olive oil. We also did almost every historical sight/museum in the old town. There will be whole posts about the things we saw. Mags and I made a new friend Sujin. She was a guest lecturer at DIU (Dubrovnik International University) currently getting her PhD at Harvard. We did the apothecary and wall tour with her and had lots of ice cream. We had this massive Halloween party really late (November 12^th) because actual Halloween was a 5-day weekend and no one was here. Plus because this is a catholic country Halloween is a day to remember the dead, not get candy. The day Mags left (Sujin left the day before) our friend Tiona came, she teaches/works at DIU while getting her PhD at Harvard (that’s how we got Sujin to guest lecture). We had her over for dinner and I made an apple/pear tart that was gone before any pictures could be taken. Basically it’s been one event after another for two weeks straight. On a good note I managed to plan our entire January. We will be in Jordan with my parents from the 6^th till the 13^th and then we head for Zagreb. Next up are Ljubljana and the three bridges then on to Budapest and its opera house where we will end our trip before coming back to Dubrovnik. One full month of travel and I can’t wait.