Today was....long, but rewarding:-) The reason it was particularly rewarding is because last night we «missed» our train from Krakow to Prague. We were there at the train station 45 minutes before our departing time, but the problem was we do not know one lick of Polish. So we did what we usually do and looked at the departure board to figure out our platform. It prompted us to go to platform 1, but we decided to ask a nice Polish man who worked at the train station, just to make sure. He proceeded to just point in the general direction of platform 1. So we waited....and our departure time arrived and there was no one else at the platform and most importantly, there was no train!!!!so we asked another Polish lady and sher just spread at us in Polish. At that moment or hearts dropped because there was a train from platform 2 that was pulling out of a station. The most frustrating part was running to another man who worked there, showing him our tickets and getting a response of a shrug...FROM A MAN WHO WE WORKS THERE!! Shrug after shrug....despair. Daniel was very upset, Tim was trying to figure out a solution, and I was frustrated. We knew the train had left so we got last minute tickets out to Prague in the morning. There was not one hostel left that had availabe beds so...we stayed in a hotel:-) Good thing we were in Poland, or else it wouldve cost an arm and a leg.
The train ride was probably the most exciting and interesting one yet. We met a med school student named April who is studying in Poland. We had this great conversation about traveling, people, books, and funny stories aboutour lives. She gave us some great tips about Prague which have already proved to be great suggestions.
When we got here, FINALLY, we checked into our hostel, decided to grab a quick dinner (yummy sausage), and then we went yo mass in a gloriously beautiful church at 9pm at Our Lady of Tyn. I wish I could understand the homily because the priest looked soo joyful!! After we went to get some yummy hot chocolate which tasted like chocolate pudding soup. It was quite lovely. We had a great conversation about opportunities in our lives and having the courage to seize them!
Now were in the hostel playing cards, and im drinking a giant carton of orange juice because I have a sore throat:-(. More mystical, medieval Prague tomorrow!!
Hi Sweetie, I was sorry to miss your call at 5:30 p but we were in mass and went to our after church plans and did not have my phone again until now! Hope all is well because we spoke this morning and I hope you are feeling better. Please call me if you can tomorrow so I check on your soar throat and hear of your adventures in Prauge. Hot tea will help and the hot chocolate you mentioned won't hurt either. Thank you for the post and glad to hear y'all iaee at the correct destination. Perhaps it may be time to slow down and regroup! Yeah right! Thanks for the blog post! Love, MOM
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