Got back from Croatia today~~~ I'm sooo happy we 3 could go on holiday together *___* and I was never bored, even when we were just sitting watching the people on the beach... it went by too fast actually T_T I want to write down as much as I can here, so I can always remember ^__^

The holiday started in a really funny/weird way, actually XD There was my mum, my grandma (her mother) and us 3. I was the one who reserved the hotel rooms through internet a while ago - according to the website's photos, it was a really nice place in the middle of a lovely green area in Porec (a town) and 150m from the beach, with a swimming pool as well! It was called Naturist Solaris Hotel, I assumed it was because the area was in the middle of untouched nature, or something. Sounded great, price was reasonable, so off we went. Once in Porec, we couldn't find it straight away, because it wasn't actually IN the town, as we found out, but on a peninsula called Lanterna. Anyway, after asking some people and approaching the destination, my grandma goes "hey, what if this is a nudist beach? I mean, I just saw a big poster of some naked-bottomed people over there O_O"
We laughed but started to get worried, because the hotel name WAS "Naturist" which in :D We joked about it for a bit, and as we finally found the place...... there were loads of naked people walking around O_O A couple even got onto bikes, totally naked... it wasn't so funny any more XDDD it WAS a nudist hotel/camping X__X But seriously, there was NO INDICATION of it being nudist on the website!!! The receptionist girl was nice though, and by some miracle, she booked us rooms at a hotel right in the centre of Porec :DDD So that was really good XD We got there and had a light lunch, then went off to walk around. The town was really pretty and had oldish Italian-style houses ^^ There was a really old, Italian style basilica as well, and an awesome PLAYGROUND :D
We met with mum&gran again for dinner at the hotel, which was every day around 7.30. There were so many dishes to choose from, but I gradually ate less and less for some reason XD Breakfast was also there, also lots of nice food... melon and watermelon *g* I have to say, the food was awesome! XD There was a band one evening that played Italian folk music (it sounded like that, at least).

On the second day, in the morning the 3 of us went to the island across from the hotel, to the beach. It wasn't that nice, no sand, only pebbles... rather SHARP pebbles... -_-; well anyway, Viki and me swam for a while ^^ I was surprised at myself... because I hadn't swum for 4 years previously, and I didn't really think I'd have the confidence to try this time, but somehow.... they managed to make me :))) like only they can =^__^=
In the afternoon, we went to Rovinj, another nearby town. Sooo pretty! We climbed up a hill to a church, and there was a wonderful view of the sea *__* The way up and down was also lovely, narrow stone streets, and we even played with a super cute ginger kitty that was sleeping on a step *o* kitty~~~~ And of course we had milkshakes before going back home! In the evening, we were really tired, so everyone got to sleep pretty quickly, despite the terrible heat in our room @_@ we ended up asking for a fan.

Day 3 saw us heading for Pula, a rather big city about 45 minutes from Porec. There's a Roman amphitheatre there, and it has an OK-ish city centre with shops and things, but it didn't really amaze us (not me, at least)... though of course that might also have been due to the horrible heat X_X Due to parking restrictions, we could only spend 2 hours there, but it was enough - everyone was glad, I think, to be off to Vrsar, where we could swim on the better beach :D we were all wearing our swimming things under our clothes already~~~ the beach in Vrsar was pebbly too, but had smaller ones, and it was pleasant to walk into the sea, and swim across to the island not far from the shore ^_^ Mum and gran went to climb another hill in the town, while we were just having fun swimming or sitting watching people XD Then they came back and swam as well, then we went home to eat XD And walked some more in the town in the evening, looking for souvenirs. Viki bought me a dolphin necklace! =^3^=

On the last day, we walked around again, for the whole day XD Viki and me had a goal of eating a yummy banana split somewhere, but when we saw the ice-cream menu, it was sooo hard to decide what to have!!! :O in the end, she ordered a strawberry thingy, and I had a banana split, and we tried each other's XD AND WE FOUND A JACK SPARROW PEZ DISPENSER =D so I bought it for Viki because there was only one~ now we need to find Batman and Spiderman 8D Also, there was this really cute shop, so I bought some things there for some people :D And Ami got me a strawberry patterned headband too *__* *chuuu*
All 3 of us drew something, so that was fun too XD as was the lazing around in the huge round swing at the playground for an hour :D

It was soooooooooooooo nice... I'm really happy :))))) I wish we could go again :D