Mama's Birthday, the Church Island and Bled Castle

4/9/2012

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_We stayed at Zio Flavio's house for two weeks, and then transfered over to Dad's cousins house, in another tiny village. Ingrid and David had offered us there house, and they had two kids, Iris (14) and Tadej (11 - pronounced Today). Their grandparents live on the middle floor and they make the biggest meals for us, in a little room for dining benches which hardly had enough room for all the pots and trays and saucers and plates of food spread across them! Not only did it take twenty minutes to digest, it took an hour!
    We had Mom's birthday there, and she is officially 51! It was the anniversary of the Big Decision! Ingrid and David had planned to go to . . .

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We Have Arrived in Slovenia!

3/29/2012

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We are with Zio Flavio in front of his home.
___We have arrived in Slovenia to my great-Uncle's house near Koper. Uncle Flavio and his girlfriend, Mary, set us up in a spare bedroom which was heavenly and far better than the sleeper-cars we'd slept in for the last two days while traveling all the way from Turkey (with a pit stop in Bulgaria) by train. The only problem with staying there was that they didn't speak english, only slovenska (the language belonging to Slovenia) and italian... So Mom and Dad could communicate by italian, but Birch and I were left stranded, waiting for translations. That was the only downside to our stay, and the rest was very enjoyable. We liked to take short walks through . . .

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