Tour of Duty - Postojna & Bled, Slovenia

Day 3 of our Tour of Duty. And we traveled about 300km to see these caves and the area of Bled with the island church and asians other than myself.

But first things first, we can't deviate from our schedule.

We stop to have a coffee.



When Tresa's dad said we were going to see the caves I thought it was the caves that those people so the virgin mary.

But these were just regular caves. Apparently they were discovered by accident when someone fell in a hole.



These caves are huge. The second largest in existence, from what the guide said.

Some of the stalagmites are 65 million years old.
I think she said they grow at 3mm every 10 years. Almost as slow as the guys taking pictures with their digital cameras with the flash going off every 5 seconds.

You know, if you are going to ignore the sign that says "No photos allowed", take the flash off and learn to use your digital SLR in a mode other than 'auto'.

So we visited another church. There's a statue of Pope John Paul the II outside.

Inside it is pretty majestic. It seems so much larger inside than outside.



Tresa's dad took his 7th photo of the trip.
I think he's the only person I know who could probably make do with the 32MB card that comes with the camera package when you buy it. 4GB would take him 5 years to fill up with the rate that he takes photos.

Which is fine for me, since he always gets me to print out his photos. You have to fill in the gaps between photos with what he describes.




So finally this is Bled. I've seen photos but this place is beautiful. And so clean, probably because there aren't any asian's around. Wait I saw an asian tour bus. I was surprised to see some non-white folks.


Well, it was a close one but we almost didn't make out to the island to visit the church there and ring the bell.

The only way across to the island was by paddle boat. It was the end of the day and we saw several boats returning.

They normally take 10-15 people to the island per boat, but we were hopeful that someone would take us there.


We were fortunate enough that someone was going to take us. There were 7 of us including Kieran going so that was enough fare to make it worthwhile for the big brute paddling the boat to take us to the island.

And this is what we saw. A silly kid who just woke up from his nap and had one too many gummi bears.



Before heading back to Movraske Toplice, we stopped for coffee and ice cream at the hotel right by the lake.

I needed the coffee for the 3hr drive home.
Kieran was all set with his spinner toy that we picked up at the Brezej church and the turkey thing was in his ice cream and Madagascar on the player.

He fell asleep in this same position clutching all three things.

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