We decided to take the coastal highway to Dubrovnik, instead of rushing on the motorway because the views would be more enjoyable and then we would be able to stop at a couple of beaches along the way.
We first stopped quickly in Omis because for the past two days I had been wanting this picture on the most gorgeous bridge, where the Cetina River flows into the Adriatic with the Omiska Dinara mountain in the background.
It looks a lot more gorgeous in real life, the water is actually an aqua blue but it was hard to capture as the traffic crosses the bridge and we were parked illegally so I had to rush.
We then stopped at a beach we saw off the highway, somewhere in between Omis and Brela. I can't remember the town name, or maybe I wasn't able to see it because my eyes were closed as we zoomed aggressively around corners passing people in the oncoming traffic lane.
We relaxed and swam here for a bit and then we were off again. Dad wanted to stop in Brela again for the amazing cherries and his favourite beach.
The day's before when we swam at Brela they had paid parking right near the beach or you could park on the side of the road and just had to trek down to the beach. When we arrived this time, they had no parking signs ropped up everywhere all the way up the hill.
We laughed as we watched one lady get out of the passenger seat and hold up the rope so her husband could park on the other side of the no parking rope. Some people had just driven over the ropes and had them stuck under their wheels.
Dad was mad and said it was a scam so we didn't pay for parking and parked all the way up the hill where there were no signs.
This is what that one couple did to park.
The best part at the beach was this little girl who was probably 2 or 3 entertaining us. This dad brought his 4 little girls to the beach, all between around 2-8 years old. The two bigger girls ran straight into the water. The one girl who was about 4 came up on her scooter with a huge pool noodle in hand and life jacket and parked it by a tree, then looked over the 4 edge off the sidewalk to the beach, threw her noodle down and then just jumped right after it. We couldn't believe how far she had jumped down so we started to watch what other funny things they would do. The dad quickly followed the older girls into the water because it was quite wavy. The girl with the noodle stripped down and starting putting her suit on. This little one pulled off her clothes and then held her bathing suit up to her dad in water and kind of faked cried at him. He just looked at her and stayed in the water. The whining quickly stopped and she started to put the bathing suit on. She ended up putting it on backwards so the scoop neck in the front being way lower than it should've been, almost to her belly button. It was so funny because I noticed right away and she even noticed but didn't know what was wrong. For the next 5 minutes she kept trying to pull the front up higher to where it should have been and then picking it down in the back because it was giving her a wedgie. The dad had no clue and just came out of the water and set her up in her tube to swim. During this time, his other daughter had hit a huge wave without him noticing and her legs flew straight up in the air, face first into the rocks. Another fire he had to go put out. It was just cute for us to watch how independent these little European girls were, espeically since there were 4 of them and no way for the Dad to be babying all of them. When the baby in the backwards bathing suit came out of the water she spent about 5 minutes trying to lay out her towel to sun bathe naked on, but the wind kept blowing it into her. Dad and I laughed and laughed at how adorable she was and how hard she was trying to do it on her own, while the whole rest of her family was in the water. No North American family would ever let the 2 year old be so alone and far away from them for so long.
After our entertainment stopped it was back to the road again.
Before we started this road trip Dad had said, "sweetie, just let me know when you want to stop to take a picture there is no rush." Well you should have seen how stressful the rest of the car ride was, there was definitely no allowed pictures. There were a lot of bad drivers and Dad just wanted to pass them the entire time, so there were many times I had to hang on tight and close my eyes, or I tried to feed Dad cherries to calm him. We laughed because this one driver was annoying dad so much and I had my arms out the window taking a picture with my iPhone (since there were no allowed camera stops :P) when he swerved extremely aggressively to pass them and I flew back into the car, luckily my hands were holding my phone tightly. Besides the ten Ativan Dad and I probably should have had after the ride, the views were astonishing. We passed a little farming town that had all these rivers from the ocean going through it and the coast just got more and more beautiful.
At the Bosnian border we had our passports all ready and she didn't even look at them, she literally looked at us for 5 seconds then said drive through.
This is the best I could get on the fly.
We finally made it to Dubrovnik!
The view of the Old Town from our gorgeous hotel, Hotel Excelsior.
Had to check out the hotel ocean pool, stat. It's filled from the waves of the ocean.
I love that the hotel has a ledge like Zadar to jump right into the ocean. The best is just resting on it and watcing the waves wash up over it.
We looked for a restaurant we read about in Lonely Planet called Lucin Kantun. It is a tapas place up one of the narrow paths, off the main road through the Old town. We ordered a bunch of things and shared them.
Mozzarella with cheese on some kind of crunchy thing we couldn't figure out if it was bread or a cripsy cheese.
Hummus
Stuffed squid with ham, mushroom, cheese and garlic butter sauce
Black risotto with cuttlefish
It was all so good but we both agreed that the turkey was our favourite.
And then I ended up with a bird on my head. The video is quite hilarious. I was just looking at them and next thing I knew this lady was sticking one on my arm. Dad was off looking at some church and we were separated by a huge Asian tour group, so I shouted "DAD" hoping it wouldn't scare the bird and have it sink it's nails into me. He heard and came over and started taking a video, when it decided to start performing for the camera and climb up my arm until it was on top of my head playing with my hair. 
We of course had to have our ice cream. They are so much bigger here in Dubrovnik and also taste amazing! The best one that had the most real looking lime was right outside Pile Gate
These were some great views at and below the Buza bar. We didn't like the drink choices so we didn't sit down but if you walk all the way down you can get some great views by the ocean without having to be at the bar.
I'll have to look into the significance of this...it smelled like bay leaves surrounding the door.
That's all for yesterday.
-A
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