[OnyxCougar]

Day Ten (Tuesday)

The first thing we did was half pack up our stuff, get everything together, and put it out in the lair. Then we cleaned Ivan's cousin's house, changed the sheets on all the beds, and then Hrvoje was sent into the lair on a seek-and-destroy mission to kill all the spiders. Ivan wasn't very happy about that, he contended the spiders kept the bugs away, but Kelle didn't care. So all the spiders got kilt. Even spider mummies had to go.


The lair is basically 3 rooms. Kelle and Hrvoje took the kitchen, Ivan and I the bunk bed in the main room. Once we got everything to livable, I made sure my still wet clothes were hanging on the heater and we went out to the Trg to look around.

We went to Subway, as in the sandwich place, just off the Trg, next to Hotel Dubrovnik. If I ever go to Zagreb again and wanna stay in a hotel, I'm stayin there. It's in the middle of EVERYTHING. And there was a subway there. So we went. And it was sooooo good. So good. Kelle had (what else) roast BEEF! and I got a large something warm. It was the most food I ate at once my entire stay there. I was an oinker. I had a hot chocolate and we walked out from the Subway, you nearly had to roll me. I can't tell you how familiar and wonderful it tasted.

We walked around Zagreb and went shopping for the kids and such. Didn't find anything, but we saw more shops, and I picked up a pad of stationery with a croatian cartoon figure on it. Funny...it's in English.... Ivan had forgotten to leave the key to the house under the mat for his Aunt and cousin, and we still had more lookie-looing to do, so he took the tram back to the house while we made our slow, wending way to Tolkien's. We were to meet in an hour there for some hot chocolate.


On the way over, we took the funicular (like a tram that goes WAY uphill) instead of the stairs this time, it was like 3 kuna each. At the top of the hill in Kaptol (where Tolkien's and St. Mark's church is) there is Lotrscak Tower. It has a little gift shop in there, and we bought some postcards, and saw a really great book on Zagreb in there that we wanted to buy, but it was like 350 kunas, and the money was starting to run low. We wrote the title of the book down, and decided to send some money to Ivan when we got home, so he could buy it and mail it to us. We walked out of the tower and down the street, past St. Mark's Church, and into Tolkien's. Ivan wasn't there yet, so we got the back table and ordered for him. Bryan Adams was playing on the juke, and I looked around at all the memorabilia from Lord of the Rings, and looked through the postcards and the one book on Zagreb that me and Kelle bought. Not long after, Ivan arrived. He had gotten to Tolkien's while we were in the Tower, and had gone back downstairs to wait for us. When we didn't show, he went back upstairs and here he was.

We were all rather subdued, it was our last night in Zagreb. We considered going out to a club, but it was DAMN cold, and Kelle and I didn't really feel like going back to the lair, getting all done up, putting skirts on, and walking to the tram in heels and riding the tram to a club and walking to the club, dancing, and going back to the lair, all in about 30 degree weather. No, that's ok, I'll take the zero. So we talked for awhile, and left. I took one last look around and left Tolkien's in body, but I think part of me is still in there, sipping hot chocolate in the corner booth.

On the way back to the lair, we got to the Tower and looked out over Zagreb. This was my last look. I took some pictures from the wall, and we got a few of us together.