Budva, Montenegro

Hello All,
Well we arrived in Montenegro on Saturday. We had a beautiful train ride from Belgrade. The moutains were amazing! We went through some many tunnels I couldn't even begin to count them all. There were so many gorges and steep peeks. The closer we got to the Adriatic Sea the better it got. The water is sooooo clear and blue. Once we got off the train in Bar we took a bus about an hour to Budva were we are staying. We got a room from a lady in the bus station. She lives very near the Stari Grad "the walled old town on the water" We spent Saturday at the beach, however it was not anything like our beaches back home. You literally could not find a place to put your towel down. It was so busy. "Mr. Rick I thought about you, it was way to many people for me ha ha" We still enjoyed it though. The water was very cold. I didn't expect it to be as cold as it was and the sand was pebbles and rocks. The views were great. At night we walked along the harbor strip and inside the walled town. It is really neat and so much to take in. On Sunday, we took a bus about 30minutes to a town called Kotor. It is actually the largest fjord in eastern europe. Again so beautiful, tall mountains and clear blue water. We hiked up to the fortress on top of the mountain over looking the town. It was a very hot day and we surely got our exercise from the steep hike, but well worth the views from up top. That night we ate supper at a Resturant on the water. It was very good we both had seafood pasta. There has been a wildfire on the mountain not very far from Budva. After supper you could see the orange blaze. It was very sad but by yesterday there was only a little bit left. Yesterday, Monday we took a boat to a nearby island called Hawaii. We spent the day on this island. It was great with very little people around. It was hot and we enjoyed the cold water to swim in. Even though it was not a nudist beach there were many topless girls and children and a few in completely nude. Again so different from home and I still have'nt yet got use to all that :) Mrs. Nancy you can tell Uncle Louie, Jessea tried to be him with the video camera on the beach with the interesting views like when we went to Mt. Baldy and the man taking a bath in the stream. He will know what we are talking about. Also tell him Jessea wasn't nearly as good as he was though with the camera ha ha. Anyway, we had planned to leave this morning on the 8:40 bus to Mostar, Bosnia, however the bus information lady told us wrong yesterday. We got up around 7 and walked to the bus station to buy tickets and they said it doesn't leave until 2:10 this afternoon, so we have been killing time for six hours. Then we have a 4+ hours ride to Bosnia. Budva has been a beautiful place to visit. It is quite expensive though. They use the euro here and from what we are told a lot of Russian, and Europeans vacation here. Everyone thinks we are from Poland or England and so suprised that we "Americans" are visiting here. When they find out where we are from they always ask "Why here?" It is pretty funny, because they call us america. At the resturant by the water the owner came up to us and asked where we are from once we told him he called us america the entire time. They even had live music at the resturant, they ended up playing John Denver's song Country Rose and the owner came over to Jessea and shook is cap and said "don't cry america" It was funny then when we left he yelled out bye america.We are having a great time. I am starting to really miss the unlimited amount of tap water I can get from back home. This is not the case here. I seem to always be craving ice cold water and I am so thirsty all the time. Anyways, Well we will talk again soon, We miss you!