Polska

Dear Blog Faithful,
(You ARE still out there, right!? lol)

I write to you today from Hostel Helvetia in Warsawa, Polska. Land of polish (the language. not the gunk for your shoes) and anger. (Have "we" (as Poles) mentioned that we got trampled during the war? If not, please keep reading.)

Anyway, we got in to our hostel yesterday, and promptly walked by every bank on the face of the planet with the exception of the one that we needed to be exempt from abroad ATM fees. Eventually getting our money though, we figured that we should make like the locals, so we went to the grocery store and bought 6 beer for less than 5$ CDN. (2 were for Dani's friend Agata who is now with us as in an official capacity as translator and all around general bearer of awesomeness.) The hostel's great though, so we had a good evening getting to know Jowen from Vancouver, Ansel from Wisconsin, Denis from Berlin, and this really awesome Brit sis and bro whose names just seemed so much typical of their locale. (& which I've subsequently forgotten.)

Today, we went and explored the "MUZEUM POWSTANIA WARSZAWSKIEGO", which is a museum all about the Warsaw Uprising. The highlight was probably the caption for one pic of Stalin, which, I didn't get a picture of, but which read, "Evil in human form - Stalin", or something to that very close extent. Anyway, it was amazing. (Remember how I mentioned anger? Poland does NOT do well with getting chosen last to be trampled upon during conflict.)

So. That's about that for now. We haven't all stuffed our faces with perogies or been married off to strange foreigners, so I'd say that it's been partially a success thus far!
I'll just leave it to you to figure out which end of that was less successful....
;)

Krakow tomorrow!
xo
-a. & d.