Sleepy Bear for Garrett

The bear on the right is Genevieve's Sleepy Bear, it used to be pink and out of all of the stuffed animals she recieved from people before she was born her favorite was this one. You can get them for $4.99 at Babys-R-Us when you check out, they are made to hold a gift card. While I was there yesterday I saw the boy version and felt compelled to keep up the tradition.........Every little body needs a good Sleepy Bear!

Happy Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day Daddy!
Love, Genevieve

Coming Home

It's now 3:15am back in Atlanta, everyone should be sound asleep dreaming of me ;)......I am in the airport in Krakow waiting on my flight to Warsaw. From there it's a 10.5 hour flight to Chicago and another 2 hours to Atlanta. Should finally get in around 10pm tonight.
I am very happy that I decided to come to Poland, learned a lot and experienced many new things. Looking forward to visiting family in the Republic of Georgia next year!
I am very glad to be returning home even if it's 90+ with high humidity "Uhg".
"Click, Click, Click......There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home...."

Zakopane and Slovakia

Friday we left for Zakopane, Poland.

This is the Monestary that we stayed at while in Zakopane Poland. It's a mountain/ski town on the southern border of Poland, very pretty and what I had imagined the Polish country side to look like.

This is Katie, she's my roomate in Kraków. We were happy to be staying at the Monestary, the accomodations are much nicer than what we've had in the dorms.

Saturday we drove across the border into Slovakia to tour an Ice Cave. We had to hike from the road below (can you see it) all the way up to the cave, about a 15-20 minute hike...try doing that 6 months pregnant!!

Went down lots of slippery wooden steps to get down into the cave, climbed 600+ steps to get back out of the cave and then hiked 15 minutes back down to the bottom, Yaha!

Nice time! Sore muscles!

Alive and Well

Hi there, I finally feel somewhat human again. Katie and I are able to get online inside the Teachers work room. This is the network I have been detecting since we arrived but because of the cinder block construction, the signal was too weak to connect to from my dorm room. I'll have to take pics of the buildings and post those later. They are typical buildings that were constructed during the cummunist period, very stark and dreary by even Polish standards.

Lets see.....We're 6 hours ahead of Atlanta so jet lag was pretty easy to overcome. It is colder here than I was anticipating, I don't think it will get out of the 50's this week and I think we're heading to the mountains this weekend to site see... "Brrrrrr"!

Here are a few pics that I took yesterday, they are the first of many.

This is the "City Centre" in Krakow. It's literally the center of the city. Lots of shops, restaurants, Mid Evil churches, theaters etc. No cars, every one is on foot inside this area which

I believe is approximately 10-13 Square Kilometers? I'll have to double check that number.

This is a shot of outdoor cafe's in the center square.

The famous altar inside St. Mary's Basilika (worlds most ornate).

This is the center of the square, it just so happened to be "Childrens Day" yesterday, a national holiday like Mother's Day, so there were children everywhere on field trips. i think there were more Polish children in the City Centre than foreign tourists.

Take care, I miss everyone but will be able to make blog posts regularly which makes me feel closer to home!!

Love you