Poland Pilgrimage Day 2

I had worried last night that I wouldn’t be able to sleep because I was so overtired. I fell asleep at 11:00 and didn’t wake once till about 8:00 am. So that was very good and I was very glad to get the much needed rest. Danuta didn’t wake up till much later, so we weren’t able to go to the computer places to find out how to get me an internet connection till much later in the day and then we kind of got a lot of wrong information and ended up wasting lots of time and energy in Warsaw driving from one place to another. We got the needed part immediately, and the sales girl put it in and configured it, but it didn’t do anything. It is supposed to give me internet for one month. So, I haven’t been able to post or do anything at all. I have been checking my email.
Barbara, a friend of Danuta’s invited us for lunch and it was my favorite pierogi, Sauerkraut and mushroom. They were absolutely delicious and I ate my fill. She was a very nice lady and is trying to get her grandfather’s death certificate in Detroit where he died in 1950. She stands to inherit a large 5 story house with about 22 apartments if she can prove this. So she is working hard at this. I helped her find some things like his emigration papers and other items and my friend Ceil Jensen gave us the information on contacting the cemetery and receiving the record she needs.
Now it is going towards night. It gets dark here earlier than at home. Tomorrow in the morning is church and I hope to meet Roger Magnusky who has been an email friend for a long time and runs the Warsaw Family History Center.

With Danuta's friend, Barbara.  She makes fantastic pierogi!

Dessert was plum cake and we had a borscht drink, not soup.  It was something new for me!

Poland Pilgrimage Day 1

Day 1
Well, this is day 1 of my Poland Pilgrimage. This, of course, was not a “fun” day in anyway. It was just the “getting here” part. Here is how things went, so far:
Woke up about the same time as a work day. We left about 8:00, and Spence dropped me off at the sky cap. After he left, he took Tyson fishing. Sounds like fun. I headed for the gate and got stopped to have my carry-on and purse searched and completely dismantled. I had organized everything exactly the way I wanted it to be for easy access when I needed something. But the guy was definitely looking for something they had seen in the Xrays. It was my flash drive, they thought it was a knife. Oh, dear… Guess I will leave that home next time. So then naturally, I ended up trying to get out of the way and just basically threw everything back in. What a mess. I had plenty of time to wait at the gate until boarding time. The flight was on time.
The flight was definitely “no frills” being as it was a 3 ½ hour trip with no lunch, unless you consider a small bag of peanuts a healthy balanced lunch…There wasn’t even an option to buy anything, which I was surprised about. You could get an M&M’s expanded snack for $5.00. Didn’t seem too cost effective to me! It was a really bumpy ride. We didn’t get our peanuts for about 1 ½ hours into the flight because the flight attendants couldn’t leave their seats yet. But I survived the bumps despite not having a family member there to whom I would have inflicted major hand damage. The person next to me was lucky I didn’t know them too well, if at all otherwise it really might have been ugly…
Then we landed in Detroit. It was muggy there compared to Utah. You could feel the humidity instantly. It was almost as though you could even smell it. The lady at the counter said my Amsterdam flight was up the escalator and to the train, 2nd stop. So that is where I went and got to the Amsterdam gate about 15 minutes before boarding. Close one. We boarded and I was happy to get an aisle seat so that I could get up without annoying anyone. The young woman next to me was going to Istanbul Turkey. The couple in front of us to Africa, several others to Turkey and a bunch were going to Africa on some sort of Missionary type assign for the homeless. So it was an interesting group of people there.
Then the last leg of the journey was from Amsterdam to Warsaw. This was with KLM and only a 1 ½ hour trip. Although it was a shorty, they served us breakfast (my 2nd for the day) and then a snack and drinks right after that. I was amazed after the Delta no lunch ride. And the service was definitely service with a smile, friendly, helpful and very nice. Probably the best part of the whole thing.
Then Danuta met me and we came to her apartment in Warsaw.
Tomorrow is an easy day and on Monday gehts los!

2 More Days!

Poland is just around the corner.  I hope that it is going to be a successful trip.  I hear its hot there right now, and of course the only AC around will be in my rental car...

I think I will really miss the grandkids.  Am going over to take some pictures of them all before I leave on my camera to share with the relatives there in Poland. 

Well, today I was the pioneer woman shucking 55 ears of corn, blanching and freezing it.  Fixed some for dinner, but after all that, I couldn't bring myself to eat even one ear.  Spencer said it was delicious.  I am sure I will change my mind later. 

Today the AC in the truck quit working.  It was the compressor and cost 1000 to fix.  That was just nice...
Oh, well, as Spence and I say, it's still better than a car payment...I suppose. 

Well, hopefully my next entry will be from Poland.  I am sure going to try to keep up the blogging while there.  That way I will have a nice record of my "adventures".