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August 18-20 Church Boys' hair cuts Cliff jumping at beach August 18, 2018 Traveled to Rijeka. We didn't know it at the time, but our border crossing into Croatia (not part of the Schengen Zone) was unbelievably fast. We learned since that border crossings usually take hours - 4 if we're lucky! Croatia is green and has big, beautiful mountains. We've loved watching the scenery. Our accommodations: This is a great apartment. Nothing fancy, but it has strong wifi, more than one garbage can and, most importantly, it was clean. This place had AC which was so appreciated since it was in the high 90s while we were there. The guy who rents it out (it was his parents and they died so they renovated it and now rent it out) lives across the hallway and was very nice. I love staying in places that are pleasant! Sunday, August 19, 2018 Church started at 10am and was only 8 minutes away, which was great. The speakers - all missionaries - translated their o...

August 20-22 Plitvice Lakes Monday, August 20th Our accommodations: This is a nice, big house with three bedrooms (all double beds). You can tell it's really old from the tiny, Soviet-styled oven, to the only cold water sink in the kitchen, lack of cupboard space, etc. The only really major down side was the smell of mold? mildew? Some very musty smell that permeated the place and was the strongest in the bathroom. The babushka that lived next door and rented the place was as attentive as a mother hen. She would come out whenever we were leaving or returned. She didn't speak any English, but was very kind. She even folded all of our wet clothes that we hung up! Due to the smell, we were happy to leave after two nights. Tuesday, August 21 Plitvice Lakes Woke up early to get to Plitvice Lakes around 7am to beat the tourist crowd. Spencer was tired and cried a lot so we had to wait about 20 minutes for him to calm down and get in the car. Then we parked in Entranc...