Day trip

We will have pictures up on our Facebook pages later on today. Still too early to worry about it :)

Took a nice hike up the mountains yesterday. We left about 6:30 in the morning and took the train out to the base of the area we were going to, a little village called Milanovo. There are a few different ways to get up to the town, but we took the road, hiking up the switchbacks. Took us about 2 hours of vigorous hiking to get up...it's about 6 miles, all up-hill. Then we had a couple hours around the town, visiting her grandmother's house. Sadly, the grounds have been let go to waste in the last 15 years, as the people who inherited it (her aunt...her dad's sister) have no desire to do anything with it. Which is sad, because it's an awesome house out in this awesome village in the mountains, but the yard and trees are literally so overgrown that you can't see the house from the road, which is barely 20 feet out. It's literally so thick with vegetation you can't see anything.

Then we took the hiker's trail back down from the village. This was where I started cursing the fact I wore sandals, rather than hiking boots, but we were sort of exploring along the way, so we know what to expect for future trips.

All I can say is...wow. We are absolutely going back. There were tons of people our age camping along the trail, and there are a couple of points where if you are easily sickened with vertigo (like I am) then it's a bit stomach-wrenching, especially the top point. VERY high up!

Neither one of us can move today :) Thighs are absolutely in agony, but it was sooo worth it. Going to go back in a weekend or two for another hike, but this time we will take the trail up and have a picnic, and then come back down. Yesterday we did around 12 miles which was a bit too much for people who haven't hiked in years. It's one thing to do 12 kilometers on the elliptical, quite another to do 20 on a hiking trail.

In any case, stay tuned to the Facebook pages, where Evy'll have pictures up later on today (Sunday)