Adijo #4

Early tomorrow morning, we leave here for the fourth time, and for the fourth time we have no idea if we’ll have the opportunity to come here again.  So, we spent the past few days thinking through what we should do one last time before we go.  Of course, there was one last trip to Tivoli Park, of course there was one last Saturday morning at the open market, and of course there was one last ice cream cone at Cacao.  And we’re sure that tonight, for one last time, we will hear the WHEEEEEEEEEE of our neighbor racing his remote control car up and down the empty streets at 4:30am…except this time we will already be awake.

What I’ve come to realize most on this trip is how blessed I have been to have this experience with my family.  Sure, I can gripe about how the kids are so jacked up about leaving tomorrow they won’t go to bed and about how many clothes my wife packs for a 30-day trip (although she did admit she over-packed this time…you have to be pulling on my leg!), but it’s because of them that I have taken so much away from our trips here.  And I have a lot more puke stories to tell.

As we packed up today, we laughed about how the first time when we were leaving, we found a closet full of stuff we had forgotten about as we were on our way out the door…and had no place to put any of it.  We sort of feel like veterans now…pretty much everything was packed and in order by noon today.

So, until next time, enjoy a few final pictures below, of the blow-pipes Marinka gave the kids, of the cricket t-shirts Lelantha gave the kids, of the slides at Tivoli, and of our final ice cream cone.  And thanks once again for joining in our journey…Na Zdravje!