MC Escher strikes again

In the second journal entries for the Utah volleyball trip to Europe, we got some answers, and learned about the tricky architecture of Croatian staircases.

Seems that junior OH/MB Whitney Webb is used to the taller, more elongated stairwells of your traditional American buildings. In Utah's Croatian hotel, Webb jumped down a couple of stairs, conked herself on the head, and promptly started bleeding.

Whitney! Don't you know that that stairwell was probably built in the 1840s? Croatians were much, much smaller then! (The tenets of communism demanded it) In America, we've torn down all those pesky old buildings or completely gutted them to appropriate our larger, 21st century stature. I knew this trip was a bad idea!

So they took Whitney to the hospital, got her stitched up, and had an X-Ray that discovered there was a hole in her head.

"The doctor was really confused until he figured out it was from the elastic in her pony tail!"

Ah, the beauty of post-Soviet Union medicine.

As for the answers we got, remember the "skate-or-die" pictures from the first update? Turns out those are when "you jump in the air and make a weird pose while someone takes your picture." Learn something new every day. That's what Jack Lalane says anyway. Oh, and "bok bok" means goodbye. It's like those Croatians have a different word for everything.