A member of the entrepreneurship program, Rok, and his wife, Petra, volunteered to chauffeur us up through the mountains to a small resort town called Bovec (BAH-vitz). Bovec is in northwestern Slovenia, at the top of a valley that extends south all the way to the Adriatic. It is a destination for rafting and kayaking on the River Soča, as well as skiing, rock climbing, and everything else mountain-related. However, even though it's only two hours from Ljubljana, it's not easy to get to and doesn't attract people with a lot of money so it has remained relatively undeveloped.
Saturday morning, we piled into Petra and Rok's cars and headed north through Kranjska Gora, where the world ski jump championships were just held, climbed 1300 meters through a mountain pass built by Russian prisoners in World War I, then descended down into Bovec. When we arrived, Petra got her birthday present and went paragliding around the mountain tops (if you look closely in the second picture below, you can see her...there is also one of Celia and Sy looking up to watch her). I thought that this would be a good birthday present for Chantelle too, but surprisingly she wasn't interested. While Petra was "flying" (as the kiddos put it), we hiked to the emerald-green Soča and then up into the hills to see the famous Boka waterfall.
Sunday, we took the "flying magical eggs" 2300 meters up to the mountain top (there were a lot of "flying" themes from the weekend). You can imagine how many times on the way up that Sy said, "To infinity, and beyond!", and he hasn't stopped talking about the flying eggs since. The views were fantastic. Petra and Rok skiied down, while we opted for the eggs. On the way out of town, we stopped at the World War I museum in Kobarid (more on that in another post) and didn't get back to Ljubljana until 9:30 Sunday night.
What a weekend. Exhausting, but loads of fun. Petra and Rok are wonderful people and the kiddos loved them. I'm not sure we would have gone to Bovec if they hadn't suggested it, so we definitely owe them.
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