Day 16- Zagreb

Oh, what an interesting day. We take the bus from Novi Sad, Serbia to Zagreb, Croatia.  We were passed out the entire way (6ish hours) because of our lack of sleep from the night before. We finally make in Zagreb and head to our hostel where we left our bags. We get there and the guy was so glad we were alive because they didn’t know why we had left our bags there for so long. Apparently the guy we told didn’t tell his boss, so they were freaking out. We got there around 1 and took a nap til 7, when we woke up, did some laundry in the sink, cooked some sausages and slept really well that night.

Day 15: Exit Festival!!!

This was a super crazy day. Since this was the last day of the festival and we were leaving at 6 AM the next morning, we needed to return the camping stuff to Mario. This also meant we had to stay up til 6 AM because we had nowhere to sleep.  [I think this picture is actually from Day 14, but needless to say, we started the day off with some see-sawing]

This is the Petrovaradin Fortress where Exit Festival is held. The river in the picture is the Danube.

 

I think this is actually from the day before too, but this was the Milka aisle in the Mercator!

The nutella display in the Mercator!

Teddie was WAYYYY too expensive.

     We went to this little park by the river, where Forrest played basketball with these guys who were absolutely awful.

  Me and Fo at the “beach”

Where we watched Spain win the World Cup.

DJ VINCENT 1000!!!!!!! BEST DJ EVER!!

SILENT DISCO! This definitely helped us stay awake for a longgggg time.  Found a balloon!

The silent disco was awesome. Basically, you were given a set of headphones and could choose from the 2 stations, which were the 2 DJs there. One of them was DJ Vincent 1000, who was Scottish and absolutely hilarious.  Then we grabbed some pizza from Pizza Cut. Nope, not hut, cut. We ate in the Chill area and watched some highlights from the World Cup game.  We made our way to the salsa stage and we sometime survived till it was time to get on the bus. :)

Here conclude the crazy European music festival adventures.

Day 14: Exit Festival!!!: MISSY ELLIOT!!!!!

Today was the day we had both been waiting for! well maybe me more so than Forrest.

This was the day that I would see Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot in concert.

We started the day off with relaxing in the bean bag place in the campground and reading. We got hungry, so we grabbed some burek and headed to our little park with the seesaw. Forrest got this cornbread looking stuff that literally tasted like nothing. How does that happen?

We seesawed a little and took a LONG nap. Then it was time to head to the stages. We walked around before Missy’s show and went to the Battery Stage where they were playing “Hey Mickey.”

We danced like fools and decided to get an energy drink. After trying to use the token that Forrest had found on the ground (which ended up being the most expensive token worth 5 beers), we bought the best tasting energy drink I’ve had in my life. It’s called Battery.

Then we made our way through the crowd to get a good spot for Missy. This humongous guy decided to stand in the front and was literally blocking everything. We finally moved around him, met this hilarious guy that was in love with Missy, and got ready.

Missy’s dancers came out and built a little tower of boxes.Then she popped out and the crowd went CRAZYYYYY!!!!

She did “Get Your Freak On” first and came out in a little black Adidas sweatsuit.  Missy was a lot chubbier than in the past and took lots of breaks :)

She also totally lip-synced the entire time, but she was SOOO entertaining. She had to do a wardrobe change after like 5 seconds and came out in a pink Adidas sweatsuit. Seriously the same thing just pink

Then she said “Now they said I couldn’t come out in the crowd, but…”

We flipped out and the people next to us went ahead and started parting, so she would walk right next to us. And she did. She sang work it and walked right by us, so naturally, we reached out and TOUCHED MISSY ELLIOT!!!

After the rest of her set, she signed three rhinestone studded shoes and threw them into the crowd. Sadly, we didn’t catch one :(

After having a blast at Missy, we went to see David Guetta in the dance arena. He was late of course and it was hot and we kept getting beer spilled all over us and were not too happy. Then he came on and was not that great and was super ugly.

But Frankie saved the night. We ran into Frankie, our friend from the bus, who was super excited to see us. He was hilarious.

Then we bought some crazy good lemonade and called it a night.

 

  

Super Excited Myspace Pic!

WASSSSUPPPP Misssy!?!!!

David Guetta David Guetta sucked. Yep. This is the sunrise when we got back to our tent from David Guetta.

Day 13:Exit Festival!!

We finally showered!!! It felt so nice :) They had outdoor showers that were actually not too bad at the campground.

The whole day we lounged around, read, see-sawed, and relaxed.

I ate my first burek and it was delicious minus the fact that it makes you feel like you’re about to have a heart attack because of all the grease :)

That night we just wandered around a little. Forrest’s foot hurt and we were both exhausted and there weren’t any bands that we really wanted to see. We walked around and took night pictures and people watched a lot.

  one of the smaller stages one of the chill areas

(some of Forrest’s night pictures)

Day 12: Exit Festival!! [MIKA!!!]

This is was the first actual day of the festival. All the performers were at night, so we slept in as late as we could, which ended up being around 10, since it got so hot in our tent.

We walked to downtown Novi Sad and just explored all day.  We found a park and see-sawed for a good while and we hit up the Mickey D’s for my Serbian McDonalds stop.

After just walking around a lot all day, we headed towards the main stage. Bad Brains was on first. They were just weird and scary.

We went to check out the Dance Arena, but it was really empty. There were a few people dancing, including a guy in a banana suit. He was entertaining to say the least. Then it was time for MIKA!!!

We got awesome spots in like the 2ndish row. Mika was phenomenal. His set was crazy and he was crazy and it was wild.

This weird high heel that just randomly popped up.

After MIKA, we headed to Miike Snow. Jason Mraz girl told us that he was her favorite. We had been emailing her and trying to meet up, but it didn’t work. She said that we had to see him and tell her how he was, just in case she couldn’t make it. WELL, he was terrible and creepy and weird. So, we left within 5 minutes.

Day 11: Exit Festival!!!

So, we headed to the bus station and onto the airport where we waited for another bus to take us to Exit Fesitval in Novi Sad, Serbia.

We met a guy from L.A., who currently lives in Portugal named Frank (we call him Frankie). He’ll be important later.

The bus ride was 6-7 hours long, including the stop at the border of Croatia and Serbia (NEW PASSPORT STAMP!) There were tons of obnoxious drunk Brits on our bus that made for an “entertaining” ride. 

After finally getting to the campground (there was a huge detour where we ended up in the middle of nowhere), we took a taxi into town to meet Forrest’s friend Mario.

After eating “hamburgers,” we headed to a little bar to watch the Germany vs. Spain game [which Spain obviously won].

We got back to the campground and set up the tent that Mario let us borrow…in complete darkness. We were successful, though. It was pretty difficult to sleep because it was FREEZING outside, but we managed.

Day 10: Piran onto Zagreb

After printing our tickets for Exit Festival at the only printer in Piran, we took the train to Zagreb. On the way, we stopped in Ljubljana and got my McDonalds for that country.

Our hostel had a kitchen!!!!! So we cooked dinner :) Forrest cooked pasta and it was delicious! We watched the Netherlands game and I talked to Caleb for the first time from New Zealand!

Day 9: Piran

We slept in a little and swam allllll day.

That night we went up to the Castle for sunset after eating fried cod and potatoes.

I brought Caleb and Forrest brought RajiYupppppp. (note the shorts)

Day 8: Lake Bled and onto Piran

Happy 4th of July!!!

After having trouble finding anywhere that served breakfast, we ate salami sandwiches at a tea shop.  Then we took a little walk up to the Castle before going to swim.

Lake Bled from the Castle (Photo Credit: FM)

We found a spot with some docks and swam and laid in the sun for a few hours before catching our bus to the City of Dragons (Ljubjlana) and then onto Piran, a little town on the coast.

(Photo Credit: FM) (Photo Credit: 10 second timer)

I was soooooo thirsty at dinner and Forrest said “You won’t chug this pitcher of water.” So I did. (Photo Credit: FM)

(Photo Credit: FM) (Photo Credit: FM)

Our favorite supermarket

So you’ll see another trend with this one.

This was on the wall of our hostel about some explorer guy or something. Krpan(?)  ohhhhhh geeeeeezzzzz

We finished Independence Day off right by watching Toy Story 2. :)

Day 7: Lake Bled

We left Ljubljana in the morning and headed to Lake Bled

The lake was huge and beautiful.

We happened to stumble upon a rope swing and a tree to jump out of, so we did that for hours. :)

(Photo Credit: FM)

  It was really muddy and I slipped down the hill.

Note: This was not a car made to pose in or anything like that, this is legit someone car.

We went to a little cafe and watched the Germany- Argentina game. Germany slaughtered Argentina 4-0. After that we went on another stroll around the lake. Tourist poses After a little hike to a lookout :)

p.s. if you haven’t noticed, forrest is a wonderful photographer