We're Home

This is a quick blip to say we're home from our vacation to Southern Poland. Our 6hr drive home yesterday wasn't as bad as we had anticipated, although it snowed the entire time, very wet conditions. It was nice to sleep in our own bed last night. All four of us slept through the night. Well, I know at least three of us did, haven't talked to Erik today to find out if he finally got a good nights rest.

We started our one week adventure going to Warsaw, as you know. Erik did some out-processing at the Embassy and they say we're flying out of here April 6th! Not a lot of notice eh? This is so rare too, you typically get 4-6 months notice. In addition to that we were told there was absolutely no way we were leaving any sooner than October. I guess things can happen when you have a 4-Star General in the mix. Anyhow, it was a combo of a lot of moving parts and red tape. We never expected it all to come together in the same place at the end of the road, but it did. So Vegas here we come.

Okay, back to vacation. After Warsaw we adventured down south first stopping at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. From there we took a short drive over to Krakow for two nights. Our friends met up with us there. They have two children as well, ages 5 and 3. It was fun to vacation with friends. I unfortunately had school work to do after the kids went to bed so Erik and John went out for beers for a few hours each night. Us girls could have taken the second night but I was tired, it was cold and windy out and I had homework to do. We really enjoyed Krakow, it's so much nicer than where we live. It was basically spared from War damage, thank goodness because it's really pretty. We had really great food everywhere we ate too, yummy.

From Krakow we adventured off to the mountain town of Zakopane. It's located at the base of the Tatra Mountains on the Slovakia border. It looked just like any ski town but you can't read the signs in Polish. It was great and the food was really good there too. We took a cable car ride up top one of the mountains to have some coffee with a clear view of the town below. We got really lucky with the sunny clear weather on our first day. The second and third day it snowed like crazy out. The kids absolutely loved the snow and wanted to play in it all day. Kenna enjoyed catching big fluffy snowflakes on her tongue then tell you how many she caught.

We're home now and now it's crunch time to get things organized to move back across the pond.

I'll work on getting pictures up, ugh, never-ending.