Nebotičnik

Yesterday afternoon we had a drink at the top of the 12-story Nebotičnik (the Skyscraper).  We're not sure whether it was named tongue-in-cheek, but it pretty much sums up what's great about this city.  Wonderful views... old town and the castle on one side and the Alps off in the distance on the other.

In any event, we had some good laughs about our first weekend here, from our temporary apartment that "sleeps six" (two in the bedroom and four in the living room), to trying to figure out what medicine we were buying at the pharmacy, to showing up to the neighborhood grocery store three days in a row after it closed.  We have spent our time in about equal chunks devoted to searching for a permanent apartment, dealing with sick kids, looking for things in our suitcases, and figuring out how appliances work (washing machine cycles are sometimes thirty minutes and sometimes two hours, and dishes get progressively dirtier the more times they're run through the dishwasher).

Oh, and we're spending a lot of time correcting mistakes tzping on the Slovenian kezboard, where the z and y are reversed, colons end up as č, and the apostrophe is amayinglz difficult to find (I wrote at least ten contraction-free and possessive-free emails before I finallz found it...that's harder than it sounds).

But, we are managing.  Today, we found an apartment,  tomorrow we'll move in, and one of these nights we'll get some sleep.  Life is good.