New Country -Check

This weekend I was able to go to Poland!  The Outdoor Rec on base occasionally does weekend trips.  Last time we were here it's how we traveled to Munich, Prague, and Amesterdam.  On a whim on Thursday I stopped by their office and they had a trip going to Poland this weekend!  Hiking plans in Switzerland for the weekend fell through due to weather, so it was a perfect backup plan.

Boy, I forgot how exhausting traveling on a bus can be!  We left Rose Barracks at midnight Friday night/Saturday morning, stopped by Graf to pick up more people, then started heading to Poland at 12:30am.  I think I fell asleep pretty soon after we left Graf, but we made for a pit stop from 3:30-4.  I think I slept again from about 4-5.  By 5:30 we were at the first Pottery store.  All of the patterns and deigns were so overwhelming!  I think in all we went to 8 or 10 pottery stores and by the end I was seeing spots because I was so tired and all the patterns were blurring together!  I ended up getting so great pieces that I loved though!

There was a pottery festival going on while we were there.  And while we didn't make it to the old part of town where the main fest was, there were smaller fests going on in the outer part of town where we were!  We found a Polish Polka Band!