More Poland pix, plus a little Lithuania

The salt mine guides are pretty sharp dressers.



We went to Zakopane...

D: So, we went to Zakopane a town about three hours south of Krakow. We went to see the beautiful mountain range that seperates Poland from Slovakia. I read that you can ride a ski lift to the top of the mountain and stand with one foot in Poland and the other in Slovakia. We had actually checked out of our hotel this day and decided to roadtrip it to Zakopane, stand in Slovakia and Poland and just crash in our car. Well, about four hours, one tank of gas, and a loaf of bread later we get there. Walking up the mountain we notice everyone was walking down. That should have been a clue right there. We also thought it was weird that all the parts for the lift were scattered on the ground. But here comes BnD, du-doot-da-doot, with hope in our eyes. The damn thing was closed for rennovation....AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! We felt like Ellen and Clark Griswald getting to Walley World...four rims stolen, a dog dragged along the highway, and one dead aunt later...IT WAS CLOSED! Man, I do not think I can express how disappointed about this we were. Bill told me I could go to where all four states touched each other and stand in all four states, but to me it would just not be the same. I guess next time we are in Poland. Oh well, we'll just have to go to another mountain range and drink beer! And that is exactly what we did!



B: Ranchers in Poland don't need fences, they just chain their cattle down like dogs in the backyard. They do this all over the countryside and on top of the ski mountain we went to. Our assumption is that fences are a lot more expensive than a chain and a tree.






B: Okay, let's take another picture of ourselves.



D: Okay...I have no idea what this sauce is but it is the bomb! This is a typical Polish meal called "perogis". They are meat and potato stuffed dumplings and they are AMAZING!!!! They come in about 4 inches of grease but we assume that is what makes them so dang good. I do not think that the Polish have linked cholesteral and heartdisease. But again, let me tell you about this sauce. In most places you do not have to pay for it but here we did. It was like having to pay for salt. Maybe because we took a picture with it. This stuff is all over the place! I am getting excited right now just talking, typing about it. This sauce tastes like soy sauce but with beef broth powder in it. Very salty, but beefy and delicious!



B: Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco and Chopin left his in this pillar in a Warsaw cathedral.



D: Always Maxi-Pads. Kind of weird that they are advertised on a rickshaw, by a dude. Seems like it would make more sense if it was a woman. You know...hot summer day, riding a bike. But whatever gets the job done...i guess. "BILL...ALWAYS protection. ALWAYS awesome!"



D: Oh look...more fried stuff. I can hardly contain myself...!



B:We're at dinner in Vilnius, Lithuania. That is a fish called zander that's delicious and yes, I need a haircut. Lithuania is really cheap. We had an awesome meal with beer and cider and spent maybe $20.







B: We visited this Orthodox cathedral in Vilnius. These three were Christian martyrs hanged on this spot about a thousand years ago by pagans.