July 1 AND 2

The longest "day" ever.
After breakfast in our hostel in Ljubljana, we walked through town and saw the largest outdoor market I have ever seen, it took up blocks and blocks of the city. Also, there were tons of street performers- bands, parades, dressed-up characters, I was even called from the crowd to hold up a curtain for a puppet show (at least what I saw was a puppet show, since it was all in Slovene, they could have been saying anything). When my 15 minutes of fame was up in Ljubljana, we checked out of the hostel and went to the train station to go to Rejika, two and a half hours away. Once in Rejika, Croatia, we discovered there weren't any cheap accomodations or much to do/see there and we decided to go ahead and take an overnight BUS to Split (which is further down the Croatian coast and close to the islands we want to visit). We had about 5 hours in Rejika before our bus left, so we joined the town at an outdoor cafe, which had set up a big screen TV for the England v. Portugal and France v. Brazil World Cup games. We enjoyed watching that until we had to board our bus.
At 10:30 pm we got on the bus. Armed with my blow-up neck pillow, earplugs, and eye mask, I headed to my seat in the very back row, far left by the window. Sydnee was next to me, then an open seat, then 2 more people. I attempted to get comfortable sitting up, pinned in by Sydnee and the reclined seat in front of me, but I got clostrophobic instead and opted to stare out the window. About an hour into the trip, the two seats by Sydnee opened up so she was able to lay down. That was when I decided to crawl over her and find two seats to myself farther up the bus (thank goodness it was not full, I can't even imagine the torture of that). About midnight, I managed to move myself into two seats mid way up the bus. From then until 2 am I attempted to get comfortable by trying out 650 different positions. Finally, I decided #139- back to the window, seat reclined, legs straight out, leaning against the window and reclined seat- was the most comfortable option. Close second was position #451- lay down across both seats, head by the window, feet resting on seat across from you (must make sure not to bother isle-mate), arm rest can be a problem. I could also discribe all the super uncomfortable things I tried, but this is already pretty boring.
*If you ever have to take an overnight bus, these are the two positions I recommend. If you have ANY other option rather than take the bus, I say go with that other option.
6 am the next morning, we stumbled off the bus into the waiting arms of an old couple wanting to rent us a room in their home. The thought of searching for a better deal was out of the question, so we happily followed them to their apartment and crashed into our comfortable beds. Around noon we managed to wake up long enough to walk around town, eat breakfast/lunch/dinner and see the beach. We took another nap in the heat of late afternoon (it reminded me of Kamp) and ventured out again that night. Today was the perfect day to sleep through, though, because most stores and the tourist offices are closed on Sunday.