Hey you guys!
Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today, we're at Plitvice
National Park in Croatia. Plitvice Lakes
Plitvice Lakes--in the freezing cold rain and hail. Freezing cold!
Anyway, we want to thank Plitvice National Park for sponsoring this video. So sit back relax, enjoy
the journey--this wet, soggy journey. Very soggy
We're on the road. We're heading to Plitvice it's a national park in Croatia
And we stopped at a gas station
To get some food and--actually, we stopped at a restaurant
I'll put a link to the restaurant below. Well we had to go to the restroom at
the restaurant
What'd we get for a sandwich?
She didn't speak too much English and I obviously didn't speak any Croatian
But for $2.50, I got a big old thing of something. We're not sure what it is yet. Let's see what it looks like
Got a big old sandwich
Cheese
Maybe ham. Ok. Lettuce
$2.50
Guess that's what we're eating for dinner. For dinner? Well for a snack
I'm hungry
Grilled bacon
Grilled bacon flavor. We don't have that in America. Let's give you guys a travel tip... Why I don't plan
my hotels in advance... There's a couple different reasons. One, if you wait to the last minute, usually after five o'clock the day of,
Hotels will actually drop their prices and you get a better deal.
Airbnbs actually do the same as well
So it's a good way to shave off a couple bucks
But ultimately, when things don't go to plan, like we were supposed to be at Plitvice today...
Unfortunately, we made some late decisions got off to a late start and
got lost
which, you know, the GPS led us in the wrong direction...we
were allowed to
now, since we don't have any hotel reservations, we're going to stay the night somewhere near Lake Plitvice National Park and
We don't have to worry about being in a different part of the country
Because we have a hotel already booked in advance. So that's what we're on the computer or the phone doing right now is looking for
Either an Airbnb or something on Hotels.com or Booking.com to see what the best deal is.
We'll let you know what we find. We're here just outside of Plitvice National Park at our Airbnb...
Our hostess is showing us around this great little one-bedroom apartment with all the amenities of a kitchen and
a nice sitting area
It's a tiny little bedroom, but how much did we pay for this place, April? It is March 10th
$56, I think? 56 us
Or maybe a little bit more with the service fee
Yeah, somewhere right around $56
What a bargain, and we even get to do our laundry!
So we don't have to go to a laundromat. We're at Plitvice National Park. It's an ugly, rainy day...
we're in Croatia, but
We're on an electric boat, gonna go start to see some amazing waterfalls
*Music*
It is pouring rain and
We're about to get off the boat!
Guys, we're at Plitvice National Park
Finally! It's been a heck of a journey trying to get here. We got lost. We were supposed to be here yesterday and
we wound up following the GPS to the
middle of nowhere. Once we finally, finally got to the park...
It was closed.
We found out that they'd stopped running the boats
Because--
Like literally seven minutes prior to when we were talking to the man at the information desk--
Because it was so
crazy, crazy windy
Crazy
Windy! and--
I should have taken some video of that. It was actually moving the car as we were sitting still. The weather forecast
We looked at last night said that it's supposed to rain most of today, but rain versus wind--I don't know,
I think I'd rather have rain. What about you? It's hailing,
Or it just stopped hailing. Would you rather have rain or wind?
Well, you guys wouldn't be able to hear us if we had wind. So I guess we're gonna be wet
We'll just be soggy!
Soggy for ya
anyway
We're gonna make the best of it. The water is very clear. Yeah show them the water. Hard to see it,
There it is--show 'em the waterfalls from back here--
With the sprinkle of the raindrops
And there's our new friends, Andrew and Christine, from Hong Kong
*Music*
Okay, we had to put
gimbal and the GoPro away, er,
the gimbal and my Canon m6
Away, it is
raining so much
Everything is drenched. I was afraid it was gonna die
Now we're on to the cellphone
just gonna have to bear with the shakiness and
We are soaked
almost entirely through. I think the ponchos are helping somewhat, but not
Quite enough. My fingers are almost numb
It is beautiful
*Music*
It's cold!
*Music*
We are still trying to enjoy the journey
Just a little chillier and super duper soggy!
*Music*
We're out here at the top of Plitvice. This is one of the larger waterfalls at the Lower Falls
Bonked in the head with umbrellas--And I keep being hit-- I keep getting whacked in the head with umbrellas
*Music*
What are ya doing?
You want some more loves?
Pet the kitty, Wayne.
Awwwwwe!
*Music*
Our new friends, Andrew and Christine from Hong Kong,
Decided to stay an additional day. They shot some video for us with beautiful blue skies to show us how amazing this park can be
On a beautiful day. So thank you guys for sharing this video with us
*Music*
Plitvice Lakes National Park was absolutely beautiful
Even though we were soggy, wet, chilled, soaked to the bone
Completely soaked to the bone
Our ponchos did not hold up as we anticipated. It was kind of like a wet tent, it was like wearing a wet
*Laugh*
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Share it with a friend and, like always, thank you for living life!