Happy Hump Day! I thought I would treat you with some pictures of our Croatian vacation to help get you through your Wednesday.

You’re welcome.

Above  is the view from my lounge chair at the local “beach.” The interesting thing about Croatia is that there are no sandy beaches like most tropical paradises. Our 4 Star hotel has a beautiful view of the Adriatic  Sea and Yacht Club, but only a small pool and nowhere to lay out by the water.

This is very common here, since there is literally no room to expand or build. There are a couple areas in the town where you can rent lawn chairs and they have a little sandy (man made) beach area. 80 Kuna for two chairs! Totally worth it.

Don’t worry, 80 Kuna isn’t as bad as it sounds. Kuna is the currency in Croatia, until  June 29 at least. On Saturday Croatia will officially join the European Union and switch their currency over to Euro. It would definitely have made our vacation a lot less complicated if this had already happened!  1 U.S. dollar equals about 5.73 Kunas. We have been dividing everything by 5 to get a round about price. It is weird to get used to, being everything is labeled at such a high price (e.g. Mojito =45 Kuna). That’s about 8 bucks for a cocktail,which is pretty reasonable for a tourist area.

This beach, Tantra, was awesome. It had a little Tiki Bar right behind us so we could order 8 dollar cocktails all day long if we wanted. It also had a pretty sweet high dive going right into the sea. Of course I was scared to death, but there was no way I wasn’t going to jump off that thing.

I was pretty proud of myself, especially since my dare-devil boyfriend wouldn’t even do it.

So besides the gorgeous sea views, I really love the actual town of Opatija. It is southwest of Rijeka on the Adriatic Coast. It is such a quaint, cute, little town with beautiful villas all over, and TONS of flowers.

About a two minute walk from our hotel is Park Angiolina, which has over one hundred flowers from all over the world.

The landscaping everywhere here is perfectly maintained, and the various flowers really give the town a unique touch.  Thus far Croatia has been nothing less of a perfect getaway for Dan and I.  No complaints whatsoever. I will share more in Part 2, but for now, a freshly caught plate of seafood  is calling my name for dinner! Cheers!