May 8, 2006

Let me tell you I was exhausted. I could barely keep my eyes open all evening yesterday and then I slept in until around 9am and then took an hour nap before we headed off into town. Today was our first adventure into the city center of Krakow with Mam-maw. It was an adventure. She is hilarious and tends to miss a lot of stuff that we say b/c we have to repeat ourselves a lot but hey that is ok.

My favorite part came today when we were getting money out of the ATM machines. Now Mam-maw hasn't even used ATM machines while in the states so to do it in a foriegn country is even better. She pulled out her billfold out in the wide open so mom stood infront of her to cover her up so she wasn't showing everyone what money she had an how many credit cards she was carrying. (You always have to be careful when traveling). Then we put her card in the ATM and mother was helping her learn how to do this. Mom asked Mam-maw to put in her pin number and Mam-maw looked at her and pointed to the ATM machine and said "I don't know what the number for this machine is!" I just looked at mother and we smiled and giggled. We told her that we meant for her to punch in HER number for her debit card. In the end, she learned how to use an ATM machine.

We walked around the square and down the side streets. We had ourselves a kabob (for you Aaron of course) and it was good!! We looked in shops and showed Mam-maw around the city. After walking for awhile, it was time to relax and having something to drink. We made our way back to the center and sat outside at one of the cafes. Mam-maw wasn't understanding that they DON'T do Ice in drinks here because she wanted a cold cold drink. That just isn't something that others do, just Americans. They do not put ice in drinks here. There drinks might be chilled but they aren't as cold as we have ours. Anyways, we told our waiter that she wanted many many ice and Mam-maw recieved 3 ice cubes which is really generous of them.

Cannot wait until tomorrow to experience more of this new adventure with Mam-maw!