There are painted cows all over the town center of Novi Sad to celebrate summer. This one was my favorite. After we left, Eleanor told me that a "puzzle" cow was her favorite--I didn't get a picture of it though. She should have told me earlier!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Hot, hot, hot....again! I looked on weather.com this evening and saw that the hottest temperature anywhere in the U.S. today (at least at 1PM central time) was lower than the temperature here at 8PM. Jeesh! However, we have a storm brewing right now and it's supposed to be in the 80's the next couple of days with lows in the 60's--yeah!!!! I am SOOOO ready for that.
Brenda's little rash/blisters on her foot have spread a little. We looked up the key ingredients in Lamisil and Tinactin and went to the chemist to get her something. She was thinking it might be something fungal like an athlete's foot kind of rash. They gave further instructions to her on how to use the spray we were introduced to as well. Hopefully she will feel better quickly. I'm thinking it might be something viral--she stayed off her feet most of the day today so she didn't aggravate it. And for those of you who are worried with the communal showers, she has worn flip flops in the shower the entire time, so she isn't spreading whatever this is.
We went to lunch about 3PM and then walked around just a little, poking in shops on the way back to the dorm. We found a shop with postcards so I'll be writing some to the family tonight. I then hopped online and tried to follow the latest scandal for Hoover High. It's certainly been our summer at that school... NOT!
I also picked up a Serbian SIM card today. The European SIM that I purchased with a Lichtenstein number is supposedly .39 Euros per minute to the U.S. You can only recharge in $90 increments though and that only gives about 45 minutes which means it either has a heck of a surcharge and/or it is more than .39 Euros per minute. I went into one of the thousands of little cell phone stores here in Novi Sad (slight exaggeration) and asked her to look up the costs for their cards for calls to the U.S. It is 30 dinars per minute--about .50. It came with 200 dinars on it; I could recharge in any amount from 50-10000 dinars. I chose 600 (about $10) and when I did it, she informed me that with that amount I got an automatic doubling bonus so I now have about 1400 dinars on the card, which I calculate will give me about 45 minutes of outgoing calls (incoming are free), all for $13 or so. Much better deal! I'll have this whole system figured out by the time I go home...and the mistakes I made were after doing extensive research! Next time, buy local SIM card and email the phone number home to your family!
Eleanor and I walked out for ice cream about 8:30 tonight. The ice cream here is unbelievably good. The wind was really kicking up though and all the cafe's were struggling to put down their umbrellas before the storm took them away. We decided it would be prudent to come on home.
I think Brenda and I are going to play Scrabble or cards in a few minutes....neither of us is tired and we can't take part in our usual evening pastime of sitting in the courtyard with the storm starting.Tomorrow, I am going to get out and explore--the high is supposed to be 85--that is so much more reasonable for me. Thursday is supposed to be around the same...just in time since we leave on Saturday for London where the long term forecast says in the 70's--hip, hip, hooray! I need to explore the rest of this town while it is cooler. The heat is supposed to start creeping back on Friday. I haven't been to the museums yet or to the Fortress. We didn't go to the Fortress last week because they were still cleaning up from the EXIT music festival. I think that is completed now though so maybe we can see a little more before we leave.
That is about all for today--sorry to be so short tonight. It's been quiet and lazy here for me. Eleanor is gaining more confidence in her dancing and feels like she is improving--a thought which has been echoed to me by her teachers. Since that was the purpose of the trip, I'm happy to hear that. She is really enjoying the dance classes and the cameraderie with the other girls. I'm happy we were able to make this trip this summer for both of us. I'll write more tomorrow!
Ciao!
Kellye
By the way, it turns out that the Scrabble game had Cyrillic letters! Oh well. I'll leave it with one of the Serbian girls when we leave.
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