Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Okay!

Not sure what happened before, the internet cafe was dumb, I don't think the keyboard worked.
Where to begin...
Train ride to Krakow. We left at 10:18 pm, rode through the night and arrived in Krokow at noon.
I slept the entire train ride, however, others in our party did not. They know the word "Polocia" (police) very well from our Nazi train conductor.

Krakow is huge. The main square itself has over 400 bars and restaurants. A huge square, can't explain it, you'll see soon. Our apartment is huge, almost as big as my house. Very modern, everything is from IKEA. Yes, IKEA is in Poland.
We have a bedroom, living room, dining room, bathroom with washer/dryer and a kitchen. WOW! Wait till you see.

Today, I think is Tuesday. We did a ton of walking, seriously probably 20+ miles. We headed toward the Wawel Castle, the capitol of Poland at one time. All kings ruled from here, in the day.

We headed down towards Kazimierz, a not so tourist town. It is all part of Krakow, yet seperate neighbors, etc. We visited the Jewish section of town. So very neat! Lots of remnants of the Jewish, WWII times. Old buildings, broken windows. Amazing. The ghetto walls were still in tack somewhat.
We visited many of the synogogues, and a cemetary. Just way cool!

It is now, I think 6:30 pm. Nick went back to our "apartment" and I am at a cafe right across the street from us. It is very modern, so I hope to post pictures, I'll try. Pretty hard when the whole blogsite is in Polish.

Tonight we have dinner with the whole group as 6 of them are leaving tomorrow. Tomorrow we will tour the Mountains, I forgot the name, then hopefully have time for the Salt Mines.
Thursday we head to Auschwictz for a day tour.

The trip is coming to an end... but what memories I will never forget.

Saw the baby pictures and the pictures of the one and only destructive Levite. I also cryed when I saw the picture of Ali holding Tyler.... Loved it!

And love you!

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