The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

On the ninth day of Christmas leftovers my true love made for me

A finished pot of soup

Delicious turkey soup

And almost all the cookies. Only one more day of cookies left sadly.

On the eighth day of Christmas dinner my true love got sick

So I had to reheat my own turkey chunks.

I really miss microwaves.

Then it was time to go see the fireworks.

Except in Croatia the fireworks started as soon as it got dark at around 6.

Because in Croatia everyone can by fireworks and set them off in the middle of the city.

Mostly, but not all, over the water.

Some of them were pretty big.

They were numerous and still going on now, at quarter to 2.

It made taking pictures a bit tricky because things were going on all over the place.

So many different types of fireworks were shot off.

That isn’t even including all of the emergency flares that were cracked at midnight or fired into the air.

When midnight finally came around there was so much smoke already in the air that the red flares made the castle look like a fort under siege by Disney pirates.

We were glad to be upwind all the of the excitement.

At this point we figured out where the city’s fireworks were being launched from.

No it wasn’t to the left, it was over on the right at the edge of the harbour.

After a few adjustments

The show was lined up for getting some cool pictures.

Okay so some more adjustments were necessary.

There were so many going off all around and above.

It was quite the show and very different from back home.

To end the night we celebrated with a cookie. This led to the gingerbread snowmen massacre of 2015. Only partial heads remain for 2016.

On the seventh day of Christmas dinner my true love told me

We aren’t going to make it 12 days.

We’re running out of turkey!

And gravy!

We had to boil more potatoes

And bake more stuffing

And tripped the circuit breaker

And call for help because we couldn’t find it hiding behind this picture on the wall.

That’s why dinner was late and crunchy

And the snowmen took another big hit while we were waiting.

On the 6th Day of Christmas Dinner my true love made for me

Another batch of yummy strudel.

Kerri forgot the soup stock in the freezer overnight, so we won’t be eating soup for a few days.

Kerri went for a walk through the palace.

This is the front entrance to the palace.

These are either really tiny people or a really big lion.

The arch doesn’t line up right with the tower.

Gregory of Nin must have a lucky toe.

This is the view Diocletian would have had over the bay, except that the bay went right up to the palace wall, the window wasn’t barred and there were no palm trees. The sun totally existed back then though.

Only the snowman heads are surviving, which might have something to do with the carrot noses.