I'm Back!

Whoa! What is this wonderful thing? Oh yes, it's coming back to me. I almost forgot about Blogger. Ciao everyone. Sorry for not writing. I've just been super busy. Carnvale, Venice, going on vacation, going to Ljubljana, Dante. Yep, been really busy here in my new home of Gorizia.
So with that said, I can promise you that I won't be covering all of that in this blog post. I think I'll write about vacation because even though it took place over 3 days, it's the easiest to write about at the moment. Venice is a whole can of fun that I cannot write about right now. It's going to take planing on my part.
Since it was Carnvale, all the schools in Italy closed for 3 days and we had a mini mid-winter break. With my family, I went to Slovenia to Zreck/Rogla. Rogla is a small ski mountain and at the base you have Zreck which is famous for its pools. So in the mornings we would ski and in the afternoon swim.
We left Sunday morning. I had a headache (but that doesn't matter) and we had a two hour road trip. What do you do for two hours? Well it's like going to Denver. You turn your I-pod on and read or look out the window. Or you turn your I-pod on and 10 seconds later it dies so you're stuck listening to nothing while reading. (Guilty!)
Once we got to Zreck, Marco and Nic went up to ski while I stayed at the base with Carla and Claudia. Why did you not go skiing?! Good question. Remember that headache about 6 lines up? It was so bad, that I couldn't even think about skiing. So instead, I went swimming in the hopes it would help my headache go away. It did.
The way the pools are layed out is the following: a unisex changing room, a unisex shower room (no curtens or doors like at the Avon rec center), a big pool, a big pool out side that has a small inside pool link, a tiny baby pool, two hot tubs, a hydromasage, and another big pool except really warm and happy. Plus there was a sauna. But the sauna is another story for another time and I'm not sure if it should be posted on the Internet.
So we swam all the way until 7 pm. May I say it was like a 4 hour swimming period. I mean, I did sleep a little bit on the beach chairs. Then we had dinner. Best part of the night! Rogla was hosing the World Cup paralympics ski race and Australia was sitting behind us. I got to ask them what time the race started. Okay, so it wasn't a huge conversation, but it was still cool.
Our room or should I say tiny cottage, was like 30 meters away from the hotel so it wasn't that far of a walk. We stayed in Villa Flora. All the villas had flower names. Villa Iris, Villa Flora, Villa Fauna, get it.
The next day, Monday, I went skiing with the boys. It was cold, (I say cold because I was going with how my hands felt. They were dying of cold. So it was cold) and grey. There was fresh snow and I got to watch some of the ski race. So that was fun. Then afterwards, we went swimming and I had my first experience with a Slovenian sauna. Again, another story for another time.
Tuesday, we didn't go skiing. We were supposed to be going home but it had dumped about a foot. Now's the part where I kick myself for not going skiing. The powder would've been epic! Still, we went swimming and I jumped in a freezing pool. (Oh the WIL memories.) Then we headed back home.
Wednesday, was preparing for the ski race I had on Thursday plus studying Dante. Ski race Thursday. I placed 2 and now I'm going to the big provincial race tomorrow. It means, I'm going to go get my butt whipped by people who have proper equipment. At least I get to go skiing!
Okay, that's it. I had a ton of fun in Slovenia and the next trip for me is ISRAEL! Yeah, I know a lot of you guys don't know that I'm going to Israel, but I am. So I'll be there for a week next month and I will take a ton of pictures and enjoy wearing shorts.