more travels

My host family took me traveling again last weekend. We left on fri afternoon and drove about 4 hours south-ish to visit my host mother's sister and her family near a town called Šibenik. On Sat, we helped pick grapes for making wine. In the afternoon, they took me to visit a national park nearby. There were tons of little ponds and waterfalls, and it was dazzling.

Most of the people there spoke very little English, but as a result, I spoke a lot more Croatian. I'm learning to string multiple words together to form sentences and beginning to understand a little of the conversations held in Croatian.

After breakfast on sun morning, we began our journey home, but we made several stops. The first was at a rest stop on the highway, but that doesn't really count, because we only stopped for a few minutes to look at the view. Then we went to visit my host father's mom. We ate lunch and talked, and then we picked plums--I don't think picked is quite the right word. The trees were tall, and the plums were about 20 ft above us, so we put tarps on the ground, shook the branches with a long pole, and collected the plums that fell. Next, we visited my host dad's brother's family, who live in a little village, with cows and sheep and pigs and chickens, etc.