Right now in Poland the people are getting ready for winter. They are harvesting their farms and burning off the extras. There are little smoke stacks everywhere!
We drove with our windows down nearly the entire way! Cole and Bailey had their heads out the window. A phenominon we aren't used to!
This old style farmer is getting his crop. They were driving along the road. There were many families out in the fields with pitch forks and shovels harvesting acrage of crops! It looked like an overwhelming job! A few of them had tractors or combines, but for the majority, it was good old fashioned hard work!
There are fields of these Hops... I am learning about alcoholic beverages! haha... Appearantly these go into beer? I don't know... but thats what I heard! There are lots of hops crops here!
The church was at the entry of Old Town Zamosc. All of these old towns have a center where you can find a shop for anything, restaraunts and a church. They are really cool.
This is a picture of a picture to give idea to what this building looks like from above. Zamosc has been besieged many times over the centuries since its founding in the 1500s. However, its fortress withstood attacks many times. Zamosc now has some 70,000 citizens.
The battlefield still remains at the front of old town but is not armed.
I love that at the top of the fortress there are still cannons. There is also an underground tunnell to get the citizens to safety. The building inside that was once the fortress now has shops; shoe stores, clothing stores, grocery stores, etc. The people in Zamosc still keep old town beautiful and clean and is still in use with all the stores you could ever need right there!
walking back down the cobblestone road to old town. This is a just across the street from the fortress.
The town hall building is in the center of Old Town. It is HUGE mung o!
nate and the kids on the steps leading up to the town hall building.
outside the town hall building on either side are plaques stating that Zamosc is listed in all handbooks devoted to the history of urban studies and has been presented as one of the most outstanding urban complexes in the world. And the other stating its foundation in the 1500's. And, of course, in the center is the eagle of Poland.
After lunch we stopped for Lody (ice cream). Our new Saturday tradition is to eat Kebobs. They are amazing! They remind me of Gyros... but a gajillion times better! The kids LOVE them! Afterwards we try the lody. Nate and Coley are sitting in the center of old town.
These little carriages were all over giving rides. So fairytalish!
Bay and Mckay in old town after lunch. I love the architecture of these buildings.
My favorite buildings down town were these super colorful and ornate ones! Many of the buildings looked like these though! When we got here there was a band performing outside these buildings. By the time we left, the town was starting to come alive. Interesting enough, it was mostly men coming into the town. infact, I didn't see any women walking into town... only out of town.
On the way home we stopped at this old cathedral. We saw it from the street coming in and really wanted to look inside. The ceilings vaulted to a point! There were amazing pictures inside and we stopped just in time for the 6:00 P.M. BELL tower to chime and at the start of mass in Polish. Good times! We stood for the priests to come in and then slipped out the back door. I didn't feel like it would be very repectful to start flashing pictures of Catholic mass but I wish I would've been able to get more pics of the building inside. It was AWESOME!
When we got home, the kids went in for their dinner while Mr. Mecham and I went on a little date. We went to media market to find a push to tv device to replace the one Mr. mecham blew up in the mission home. We also stopped at KFC which is really good here! I swore off KFC about 20 years ago... but picked it up once I realized that I could fill my own cup of ice clear to the top at KFC! (nobody puts ice in your drink for you here.... nobody... ever! and I miss ice.) When we returned to the Polish home we found Bailey trying to go to the park in the dark by herself, some nice sibling rivelry and children who fed themselves snickers ice cream bars and a spoonful of peanut butter for supper. All is well. All is well.
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No one puts ice in drinks in Germany either. I think it is a Europe thing. I found that if you ask them at the restraunt, they look at you real funny, but they will add it for you!
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