Ljubljana - Day 3

It rained today.  Mostly just drizzled, but it was enough to make it a museum and hot chocolate day.

First off, the Ljubljana City Museum.  To go along with the celebration of Ljub's 2000 years, the museum had great exhibits on the Roman times.  We were standing in the dark basement by the excavation of a Roman building on that site when dirty, sweaty people came running through, shouting in Slovene.  It was rather disconcerting until we found out they were in the "Gladiator Race." and had to find their way through the site.  Other bunches followed and we just started pointing to the way out.  Probably not allowed but it was fun.

We stopped for hot chocolate and cheesecake before the next museum--the National Museum.  More Roman stuff there.  We were getting museumed out so went down by the river for lunch.  Rain stopped so we could sit outside.  I had mushroom soup.  G had cold cuts.  Great lunch.  We were sitting by the Cobblers Bridge built in the 1200's.  A wedding party came by to have their pictures taken on the bridge.  Then a bunch of runners showed up and one of them in a kilt mooned everyone. Crazy runners everywhere!

We wandered around old town for awhile and then went home.  G went to the store to get some bananas.  He said an old lady in the store chattered away at him in Slovene.  Took him awhile to figure out he was supposed to put the bananas in a bag and have them weighed before he got to checkout.  We get scolded every once in a while--usually by old ladies.  The young people all know English.  The cleaning lady this morning finally shrugged and turned away (dumb Americanskis!).

First photo is view of Ljubljana from the castle.
Second is a colorful Art Nouveau building.