The Thing about Trip Pics

Since getting back from a nice long awesome vacation to Croatia - I've discovered a couple things about trip pics. 1. If you take too many it's really hard to sort through them 2. Even when people say they want to see them, they don't really. I can actually watch friends at about the 15 second mark start to fade and note the boredom that envelopes them like a fog and they sort of go into standing coma - it's just like that chick on the Toyota Versa commercial who said she read "most" of an article on the internet - because in 2013 nobody has any sort of attention span AT ALL.

So, I'm going to post a few pics - just a few - because you're going to fall asleep. Also, have you looked at the various methods of sharing photo's online in a slideshow format with music. It's really really hard to find one that is intuitive, can hold a significant amount of pics, let's you put music to it, and isn't super expensive. I've tried almost all of them and I'm left somewhere between irritated and blehhhhh about my options. 

I found what I thought was a really good site, which I've used before and liked - and I was really enjoying it right up until it stopped allowing me to caption the photos. Just stopped captioning the entire right side of edit photos - nothing. So.... tech support said, "oh wow, software problem, I'll have to take this higher up the chain - we'll email you when we can diagnose and fix the problem". Ugh, when do you think that will be?" I have pictures to share with uninterested friends, people! And no, I didn't even want zoomy effects or emoticons to bounce around in my slideshow - just a pretty arrangement of photos - and I want to email the link and not have my own husband go "I can't open it, our browser at work says we don't have the widget - wtf?????" Do you know how long I took me just to get it out the door to one person???

Note the totally relaxed vibe in my writing - ahhh, vacations  - I'm so relaxed. Haha.

Old Town Dubrovnik

Little boats and blue blue water

My $30 Kir Royale - woops. Note to self: Don't order champagne in Croatia.

Me

View from the wall. They film Game of Thrones here - yes, we saw them.

Our Cat - 7 friends, 1 skipper, and we're all still talking

She's quite pretty

Every village = cute and charming

Some guy had a great sense of humor on Lostovo

Sunset in Vis

This is a good way to spend the day

Croatia - You complete me!

We are back from lovely Croatia! Sorting through pics now - but here are a couple to get excited about!

Croatian Crustacean Vacation

Did I mention that we are going to Croatia this summer. Perhaps I didn't mention it because I would then also have to mention that this is my BIG BIRTHDAY trip to celebrate turning .....................wait for it..................50! WTF? Why, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???? - 

Whatever, grateful to be alive (blah blah) - all of us turning 50 this year have been referring to this as our "jubilee year", so big plans in store - including this awesome trip with friends to Croatia for some fun and sun. 

Here's how it's going down: September 2nd we arrive in Dubrovnik - we'll spend 4 nights there exploring around, eating mass seafood and drinking pink wine. Side trips, beaches, getting culture.... the usual. Then on Friday the 6th - we'll drive up to Split and spend the night. Saturday the 7th, we'll meet our captain and board our lovely catamaran and for 7 days we'll sail around in the sunshine. Super excited about the whole thing and I'm just starting to plan all the details - like where we are stopping to eat and who's in charge of cocktails on the boat. If you've been to Croatia, let me know if you have recommendations for great stops along the way. I'm collecting restaurant details on the islands, so any additions will be great.

Here are a few photos of beautiful Croatia, all from the Croatian Tourism Website and views of our catamaran from Yacht Charters Croatia. Isn't it fantastic, can't wait, will need new glamorous wardrobe to make trip complete!