1. The most delicious, warm hazelnut pastry was eaten here. And I found it at an awesome cheap bakery that was much loved in our time in Zagreb. It was so good I took a picture of it.
2. Our first (and only) air-conditioned hotel. I was even cold for a little bit!
3. Cheap food.
4. Kebabs. Mine actually wasn't even that amazing compared to the other kebabs people got. But it was still super good.
5. The Cathedral and seeing a depiction of Christ and God as separate and embodied individuals. Don't you love it when nuggets of truth show up places where they shouldn't technically be? Reminds me of the Sistine Chapel, oh Michelangelo, you sly dog.
6. The impromptu show in a town square with the missionaries. Upon arriving in Zagreb we learned our one show there had been cancelled. So instead we ended up getting a show arranged in a town square through religious laws so that the missionaries of the area could come and proselyte while we danced. It was amazing. Probably one of the best shows of the entire tour. We did the whole thing in one costume and we were originally going to do like 3 numbers, but ended up doing almost our whole show. It was a really cool opportunity.
Here we are doing Elkridge clog in character shoes and Appalachian dresses.
I include this picture solely for Josh's face, he's the one in red in the middle. This is the boys doing Texas Fandango. For about half the dance they just beat each other up.
Here are the dancing...things...that joined us in the show. Greg messed up in Appalachian Running Sets that day and blamed it on the dancing banana, you can't see it in this shot but there definitely was one.
One of the greatest parts about this show as that while it was being set up, our translator asked the Police Dept. (where he was setting this up) if they wanted help with their English, so they will now be getting English classes from the missionaries!
7. At that same show, between numbers I got to chat with the people watching. I met these siblings from Bosnia who loved to talk to me (they liked improving their English) and then getting to tell some senior humanitarian missionaries about them because Bosnia is in their area! I also told the siblings about English classes through the missionaries.
8. Finding things in the market for the first time that I actually loved and unashamedly buying them. Even though I'd liked things in Hungary, I mostly bought traditional things to remember being there. But in Zagreb I truly loved the things I bought them and didn't get them because they were traditional. I bought a small and a large tablecloth with a traditional heart print on it and a beautiful carving of Christ. I use the tablecloths as blankets. I also spent more than David Lewis, which was a feat because he was clearly the big spender of the trip.
9. Rooming with Emily Bills again. Love her.
10. Watching Man on Fire with Drew and Jay. It was nice to just stay in and watch a movie one of the nights we were there. I was sick of being a tourist.
11. Staying in and watching funny youtube videos with Liahona. My personal favorite was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Lx2ihpGbc She also showed me some great Friends clips.
12. Spending an afternoon at the park watching some of our team play soccer while eating a kebab. It was nice just to relax. And entertaining because the grass they were playing on was super slippery. In fact most surfaces in Croatia were slippery...
13. Eating a hot pepper just because Justin wanted me to. I have never taken a food dare in my life, but something about Justin made me want to do it. That's quite a talent...hope he doesn't take advantage of it. ;)
14. Speaking in the ward and knowing as soon as I entered the building who the talk was for and getting to meet her afterward. Giving a talk through an interpreter wasn't as difficult as I expected, and it was probably one of the most intense spiritual experiences of my life and I will never be grateful enough to Ed for giving me that chance.
2 comments:
TBE.
It WAS the banana's fault!
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