Slovenia...Austria

Got cut off...a national park that was amazing and then into the Slovenian alps. We did a farmstay with a familz that has 50 milking cows, gardens, fruit trees, a dog that just had puppies, and loads of kittens. The food was amazing after all the pizza in Croatia. We stayed near Lake Bled and swam every day in the lake. We were able to use some bikes from the farm and would ride into town to swim and explore the area. There is a church on an island in the middle of the lake that both Greg and I took turns swimming to...the day we swam to the lake it was really windy and there were some whitecaps. Greg went first and I started worrying if he would make it when he started swimming the backstroke. Luckily, he made it and came back to shore safely.
We had to drive back into Croatia to return our rental car to Rijeka. We found a small town south of there on the Istrian peninsula to stay at for the night. We were able to swim in the ocean one last time and have some fried squid. Yum. Then we managed to find the rental place in the citz without killing each other or getting lost. We loved having the car and the freedom it gave us to explore.
We took a train a few hours later to Lubljana, Slovenia and we are still here. It is a beautiful citz with lots of gorgeous buildings, a river running through the old town, and a castle sitting above the city on the hill. Unfortunatley, all shops are closed on Sat. and Sun. the onlz days we are here. Pretty slow when nothing is open. We rented some bikes and explored the outskirts of the city where there are loads of gardens and parks.
Now we are waiting for the train to Salzburg where we will stay for two nights before hitting Vienna and then finallz leaving on Thursday. We are a little worried about things being expensive but we found a cool place to stay just outside Salzburg at a bed and breakfast. The hostels we researched seemed nuts and liked to play the Sound of Music everynight...no thanks.