Where's our car??!!!

For fall break Carrie, Bekah, RheaAnne, and I all headed off to Croatia. We had our rental car and our hostel/apartment rented and they were expecting us. Since it was a teacher work day we were able to leave after working 6 hours so we left around 2:00. We knew the trip would take us about 8 hours driving but we failed to include time to get lost and the unlost (if that's a word but you know what I mean!) It took us 11 hours to get to our location so we promptly fell into bed!

When we woke up in the morning we were amazed! The Adriatic sea was across the road from where we were staying and it was absolutely beautiful! We went to Split, Croatia (about a 30 minute drive from our hostel) and toured Diocletian's Palace. This palace is HUGE and it dates back to Roman times! It was amazing.

Well, before we toured this palace we literally drove in circles to find a parking spot. We finally found one on the side of a less busy street near a park. We checked for no parking signs and even looked in the cars already parked there to see if any of them had special parking passes. We couldn't find signs or special parking passes so we merely walked toward the palace. After dinner we came back to find that our car had, essentially, vanished! All four of us just stood there for a full minute before any of us could form an idea. RheaAnne and I realized that we needed to speak to people around us in the shops to see if they could either call help for us or simply tell us if they saw anything. Well, all four of us headed to this shop. I bravely went inside and asked the lady if she saw anything. She said "It has not been stolen." I said, "okay." She then preceded to tell me that the police towed it because we parked in a no parking zone. I was suddenly shocked as I know we looked and looked for any sign that would tell us not to park there. The lady told us where to go and got her friend to drive us to the lot where the police store the cars. The police were going to charge us anywhere from 300 - 700 Kuna (50 - 100 Euro) normally but they let us pay 50 Euro to get the car back and in 30 minutes we were on our way back to where we were staying.

We had a wonderful trip in the end. Croatia was warm and it was amazing to be able to swim in the Adriatic Sea. The water was a bit cool but fun none the less. We were thankful that the Lord was looking out for us the entire trip. We know that we could have had a lot more hassle and money spent simply to get the car back!