After biting nails and wringing hands over some near misses, Clarice and Connie were able to get on all flights that eventually lead safely to Sarajevo. All of the flights were sold out and over booked, and each time it didn't look like we would make it our names were the last ones called for standby passengers. We ended up with great seats on the flight from Atlanta to Munich, seated next to each other and we each had our own little TV monitor that was attached to the seat in front of us. There were so many movies and TV shows to watch that nine hours just flew by and it really wasn't enough time to see it all. Delta treated us very well and gave us plenty to eat during the flight. Delta gets blue ribbons from us for excellent service.
We found our way through the enormous Munich airport to find the gate for our flight to Sarajevo on Lufthansa Airlines. Within a few hours we were on our way on a much smaller plane with no TV's, but the flight only took 90 minutes and we both napped pretty much the whole time anyway. By the time we made it through customs and found our bags, Karen was there to pick us up and we have been having a great time from the start.
Karen lives about 15 minutes from the airport in a nice apartment home that has a beautiful view of the city. The home is up on a hill and overlooks the valley. After a good night's sleep, we started out walking this morning down the hill and within about 20 minutes or so we were in downtown Sarajevo. We had fun walking the narrow streets taking in all the flavor of the city and doing a lot of people watching. We wondered if we stuck out as tourists, and I decided we probably did since we were the only ladies wearing sensible walking shoes instead of crazy high hills on cobble-stone streets. Thank goodness for those sensible shoes because we walked and walked and walked all day. We went into a huge meat market and checked out the street vendors along the way.
This afternoon we took a bus tour of the city and heard a lot about the history of Sarajevo. It is a large city with unique beauty. We ate a big dinner in town at one of Karen's favorite Bosnian restaurants. We all liked it a lot. Then we walked some more through town to check out a huge street market with fresh vegetables that we had seen from the tour bus. By the time we got there the market was closing down and most of the merchants had already taken the veggies down, but we did buy a couple of nice looking tomatoes to compare to Bill Bird's tomatoes.
By the end of the day we were all too tired to walk back up the hill, so luckily we found a taxi willing to drive us home. Clarice declared today a roaring success, and we are sure that the next two weeks will be just as fun.
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