"Brat" is Short for Bratislava

Here are the pictures from the fancy camera, as promised. They are in no particular order whatsoever.

Dave, Allison, Nathan, and I stayed at a nice hostel one night. Each of the rooms was named for a country, and ours was Sweden. There was a lot of Ikea furniture and Vikings. 

Of course...

I had a bad 'betes day, with crazy highs and lows within hours of each other. Too bad diabetes doesn't go on holiday. Allison has always been a very sympathetic friend. She was there when I got my first insulin injection and documented the whole event. Here's Allison sympathizing with me by getting her blood sugar tested. Here's me reveling in her upcoming pain.

Dave's camera is cool.

We're not directly looking at the camera, but I still love this picture. I think Nathan and I are the perfect heights for each other, if that makes sense at all.

There's a revolving restaurant at the top of that bridge.

Me and my friend

That presidential palace again

This makes me laugh out loud every time I look at it.

Beautiful couple

Tourists on a tour in the rain

Cool lighting

Next up... Budapest! 

Bratislava Has No Fun Puns

We spent about 18 hours in Slovakia, so we made the best of it by exploring Bratislava, the capital city, even in the rain. Hey-o!

This is the front of the presidential palace.

Nice flowers

Nice church

There was hardly anyone on the street, but church was poppin'!

Nice building

Castle-ish looking complex on top of a hill

View from the said hill. Not sure why there's a thumb in this picture.

Rain falling 

Nice "old town" section of town

Guy with nice 'stache statue

Nathan thought this was really cool, but I'm not sure why. The many arches? The lime green minivan? Not sure...

I'd recommend Bratislava for a stopover between Prague and Budapest, but stick to to the "old town" section, and watch your umbrellas. Nathan's got stolen when we stopped for gelato. It was broken anyway, so the joke's on the brolly thief!

I just realized that the only "people picture" in this post was of me hiding my pump behind my back, and my captions were particularly uninteresting with the word "nice" appearing no less than five times. Sorry. I can't blame my blahs on the weather (it's 75 and sunny today!), so I'll blame my lingering cold. I'm on the up and up, though. I'd say I'm 75% better. :)

Stay tuned for Dave's fancy photos. They're really amazing.