June 8 & 9 - More Fun by Lake Ohrid, Macedonia
We couch surfed in Filip's 5 star Hotel room which was the BEST! We ate in Filip's restaurant which was the BEST! We had the BEST time in Ohrid and the weather was the BEST!~
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| Beautiful big king sized bed. |
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| Loved the shower |
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| Kitchenette and dining area |
Saturday morning brought a big festival for children. It seemed that it included infants up through high school. We enjoyed watching the competitions and activities that these children did all morning. Everything from competition sports like basketball and soccer to chess tournaments and hula hoops. What fun they all had!
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| These boys are having soccer fun. |
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| Arts & Crafts |
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| Hula Hoop Contest |
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| Jump Rope Contest |
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| What a sweet Macedonian girl! |
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| This is cooperation and team work - passing a ball |
Filip surprised us with a boat ride across Lake Ohrid.
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| The beautiful blue of Lake Ohrid |
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| Our boat driver and the shore line of Ohrid |
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| Filip is quite the guy |
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| Hi everyone - this is great fun |
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| This is so exciting - Thank you Filip! |
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| A KISS for you |
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| I promise I was holding this for Filip...I don't even drink! :) |
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| Rich is in paradise and Filip says "I think it was a good surprise." |
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| Such gorgeous scenery and what a perfect day |
This day also brought food galore!
9 a.m. in our hotel room (which
had a kitchenette) – musesli, yogurt, and banana
2 p.m. at the restaurant with
Filip – mushroom soup, shopska salad (cucumbers and tomatoes with
goat cheese),bread with Pindzur Salad ( grilled, ground, and fried
tomatoes, peppers, carrots, aubergine, garlic, oil
3:30 p.m. at the other restaurant
across the lake – bread with a big platter of cheeses, meats,
deep-fried treats, etc.
5:00 p.m. at his Villa...a huge
meal prepared by his mother and her good friend, with the help of
Alfred. - a special soup with dumplings, home-made bread, a chicken
dish, and a pot roast with vegetables (eggplant, tomatoes, carrots,
potatoes, zucchini, peppers), strawberries
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| Pinzur Salad Dip - to die for!! YUM! |
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| Yummy oe'dureves |
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| YUMMY! |
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| Pasta vegetable soup |
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I thought I was going to pop. We
didn't want to offend his mother, so we just ate and ate. Needless
to say, we didn't eat again until the next day around noon.
Filip introduced us to his family and they had prepared the meal - fun time for all of us. I sang and played their piano and Filip entertained us with his jokes.
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| What a beautiful lady his mother was! |
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| This was his 2nd mom - a great family friend |
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| Rich really got along well with her; Filip loves his drinks. |
Zoya wasn't going to leave until 5 p.m.
on our 3rd day in Ohrid, so we walked around the town. We have many great photos together, so I'm sharing some of them with you here now. She's my new sister in Macedonia. Maybe someday she'll come to Idaho to see me.
I
bought some earrings from a cute Macedonian lady and we walked to an old
church by way of the lake trail. We also visited a couple of other
churches.
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| This cute dog kept following me everywhere. |
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| Wish I could keep him |
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| Such a beautiful old church by the lake |
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| Inside the church |
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| More ruins |
We met Filip around 3:00 and had some yummy pasta. He
spent two hours talking about everything and then he presented me
with his gift of a hand painting picture of a saiboat.
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| I was very emotional about him giving it to us and then it was a sailboat which had special memories from Croatia. |
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| On the way back to Skopje, Zoya stopped to show us another cute town. |
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| And cute little boats |
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| Zoya's friends own a hotel in the next city along Lake Ohrid |
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| When we returned to Skopje, I baked a cherry pie with Zoya's cherries from a tree Rich had picked a few days ago. I made it at 10:30 at night, so we had a midnight snack. |
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| OK Zoya - I thought we were posing crazy, not like you who looks pretty ALL the time. |
We parted by her
giving me a beautiful framed photgraph of Ohrid lake with rainbows
and a church. So beautiful! Thanks for all the memories, Zoya. We love you! And Skopje! And Macedonia!
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