Krakow

Krakow is beautiful, and cold.








Amazing vegetarian restaurant, and very cheap, 20$ feed everyone, with left overs.






Posers

















Mulled wine with raspberries and ice cream. So so delicious.



Apparently you cannot play the trumpet, eat ice cream or roller blade on the trolly.

Is this list seem so completely random and strange to anyone else?



The amazing Castor Coffee Club. They had this delicious rooibos espresso, different then anything I have ever tasted.



One last grand group picture before we split and went our separate ways

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Noah's 3rd Birthday

Noah is officially 3.

So far two out of the last three birthdays have been out of the country.
First one was in Switzerland/France and this one in Poland. I think April is our favorite time to travel or something.

Noah we are so proud of you. We dearly love 3 year old Noah. You are fun, wild, sensitive, inquisitive, content, strong, brave, tender, and loving. Quite the combo. You love to sing any song that comes to your mind and sometimes quite loudly. You are not afraid of bugs, in fact you have quite the eye for ants and love them so much that you actual kill them, or maybe you don't know your own strength, of which you have much. On many occasions your older brother with ask you to deal with the creepy crawlers that are near him. Your skill is in high demand in this family. Happy Birthday Noah!












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Ulucz, Poland

This is the town where Eliza's grandfather grew up, into his mid 20's, and lived until the later part of the war in 1942. Then they were forced to leave and walk miles and miles past Humniska where many were killed and some sent away to labor camps.



The hand painted sign for the town, current population ~150.












The oldest resident. He remembers the time (he was 12) but unfortunately says that there isn't much left from that period.

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Stay Warm

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Humniska - Movie Star

So most of the time with the families there were full of joy and mutual love, but throughout the meal they kept looking at me and saying I look like someone famous like one of the movie stars, they just couldn't remember who.

This was quite flattering.

So I inquired to figure out to which one she was referring. To my surprise it was not one of the modern, handsome Hollywood names that one would love to be compared, but it was from an 80's TV show called "Shogun" and to me not knowing the show it sounded cool until I saw an image.


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Oh, man how perfect. I forget sometimes other countries get american shows after they have gone out of style in the US. Well...at least I got a sword.

-ND

Humniska, Poland

For a more sobering time to our trip, we went to visit Humniska, a place with great atrocities and great heroism. Rita's mother and grand parents were hidden by a neighboring family while the rest of the village killed.



Loading into the van



Polish country side





A memorial marker to the villagers






The 2nd and 3rd generation, rescuers and rescued.



The medal honoring Kendra "the righteous among the nations"






The home cookin' was quite tasty



The house


The attic





The daughter-in-law and grand daughter and group

They were amazingly warm and full of love, and she made really good mushroom soup (supposed to be good for the heart). It would have been great to spend more time with them. Maybe some day...He knows.



The house where Rita's parents met and her mother lived before the war. They had a general store out of the front of it.

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Polish!?!

So far we have been here for a week+ and we cannot confidently say one word in Polish sort of sad since we have actually been trying.

How would you say this?
dziękuję

Nope - it's pronounced
Gen-koo-yeh

And apparently there is some subtlety that we are still missing in the pronunciation.

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