Our Family's Adventures in Croatia & Beyond: Alison's Scrapbook ...

A post by Alison

When I first saw my friend Ana, I was so excited. ?Though I hadn't really been lonely here in Croatia, I think I have been in need of some more friends (and no, Mom, the 13-15 year olds from my theatre class do not count). ?So yeah, as I was saying, it was like a shock. ?After a little bit of driving to get to Baska Voda (which is about 4 hours south of where we live in Rijeka), we just got settled down in Ana's family's house. ?Her uncle and her grandfather were there, and while her uncle speaks English very well, I certainly heard a lot of Croatian on this trip.

On the first day, Ana showed me around, and we went to the beach. ?Ana's family has an alligator flotation device that we called Mr. Ally (named after me). ?We swam for a few hours until about 8:30 at night.

The next few days went on in the same pattern. ?That's not a bad thing, of course, because I had a lot of fun. We went for ice cream almost every day, swam almost every day, and had a few accidents happen. ?The accident part wasn't that fun though (more on all of that in a moment).

Does this picture creep you out a little bit? ?Let me explain.

One day life did not go so well for Ana's family. ?We started by going to a fancy hotel pool, but before then, Drago, Ana's younger brother, broke his swimming mask and it shattered into a million pieces. ?Then, Ana said, "This is probably going to be the worst thing that happens today." ?Well, Ana, you were kind of wrong. ?After we went to the pool, we noticed some blood, and we wondered whose it was, and it turned out that it was from one of Ana's older brothers, Marko, who cut his foot on something that we never discovered. ?He went to the hospital and got stitches immediately. ?Also, something much more mild happened to me, as I tripped over an umbrella pole and almost fell two times.

So what does this have to do with the picture above? ?Well, there was a lady who knew Ana's great-grandmother, I think, and she was so nice that she gave the family the beach house. ?But for some reason, she has cursed us! ?(I said that with a very dramatic voice!)

Now for more fun stuff....Ana showed me both beaches (the left and the right). ?We swam a lot. ?Actually, we really didn't swim. ?We laid on Mr. Ally and talked about the Sims 3 (simulation game) family that we were going to make later in the week. ?When we did swim though, we jumped off the pier, saw fish, and together got in one of those big balls (like the one my sister and I went inside in Aquaworld in Budapest) and then got tossed into the ocean waves. ?I really appreciate Ana's family for making all of the fun stuff happen.

We had so much fun considering some of the bad luck the family had.

Source: http://fulbrightfamily.blogspot.com/2012/07/alisons-scrapbook-from-baska-voda.html

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