Empty Nest Syndrome

So, it’s just Casey and I now, Codi left on Friday to continue her adventure. We will miss having her around especially because she always did the dishes for us and she was great company and a better shopper then Casey. Our first and last visitor in Poland.



After our trip to Prague we worked for 2 days and then headed to the Baltic Sea for the weekend. We were really impressed with Gdansk, a sea port town widely known for its amber and nearby beaches.

We got to climb the church tower of Virgin Mary, the biggest brick church in all of Europe. The 407 steps were a little bit of a challenge, but we had taken it upon ourselves to see how many towers we could climb when Codi was visiting. It is funny usually Casey and I have bad luck, and all the towers are closed when we want to climb them, but we had no problem with Codi.

We went for a meal of pierogies, I think that I was the only one that enjoyed them. I suggested Codi and Casey try something a little different other then the usual potatoe and cheese. I guess that they shouldn’t have listened to me.

On Sunday we had a bit of a disappointing day. It all started at about 2am in the morning when Codi and Casey were consistently woken up by some rowdy people. (I was sleeping). We headed to the sea side in Sopot only to find that everyone else had the same idea, and it was so busy, you had to wait in-line half an hour for ice-cream and it wasn’t even that good. The one highlight of the Sopot was the Wobbly House, based on the architecture style of Antoni Gaudi.

After fighting the crowds, losing a jacket, we got tired and caught a train back to Inowroclaw, the train was really old and shaky.(4 hours long) So shaky that you couldn’t read a book or even sleep without falling off your seat. To top the day off, we had a run-in with a fake cop that demanded that we pay him money or he would arrest us, after arguing in broken Polish he finally left us alone. We were relieved to be back at home, I guess there has to be one bad travel day.

Chris.