Grandmom & Grandad's visit (& belated Thanksgiving post)

Donna & DeWayne came to visit us around Thanksgiving & stayed for a week. (I'm SO sorry this post is late, y'all! Better late than never? :)
Anywho, we had a good time traveling around Krakow & Kielce with them.
So cool! Critical mass in Krakow one night! There were hundreds of riders & police blocking the traffic. If you aren't familiar w critical mass, you should check it out sometime. Among other things, it's a reminder for all of us to SEE those who bike. Barclay & Langston have ridden in Macomb.
Post-dinner, pre-shopping in Krakow
A fun Polish holiday: Saint Andrew's holiday cross-dress & palm read. Seriously. According to this website...

St. Andrzejki Day Rituals

This is a special time for young Polish girls who want to find a husband. On this night and the next day, fortunes are told and the results are not taken lightly.

I didn't notice any gals asking for palms to be read. And from what I understood our Polish pals to say this is more a fun, funny kids thing now-a-days. This was our waiter joining in the hoop-la. And me enjoying all the funny cross-dressers (I even caught one guy feeling his own balloon boob! Ha! He was standing right in front of me when he did it, so I laughed & said, "Niiiice!")
On the train ride to Krakow
Donna in her element. :)
The Key fam at our "hotel" aka dorm, where the grands bunked with us.
an ordinary morning...
an ordinary snarl...
Look how well that man taught his son! :)
Isn't this great!? They dig American jazz & blues here.
trumpeter in Krakow (look for him out one of the top windows) He plays to each cardinal direction at noon daily.
This was "the crew" who braved the concentration camps tour earlier that day. L to R: Barclay, DeWayne, Stephen (a Scottish dude who noticed by just looking that D. was not Polish & asked to share a cab! He eventually joined the other men on their tour that day & met us for dinner than evening), Robert (an American friend who is also teaching on a FB here in Poland). We were eating at this cute, very traditional Polish place with fur on sleighs & all other kinds of interesting deco.
L. about to "dig in"
We ordered a sampler called "the trough"...that dude was fa' real!
L. playing around in a piece of art. :)
a dedication to all who died in terrorist attacks. Very neat monument in Kielce.
L. & grands at our local pond.
our local Palace: see below as well.

toy museum!


Thanksgiving at Pizza Hut w the grands, Leanne & Wlod, our shepherd. Good food. Great company. And we all told about what we were thankful for post blessing & pre food. It was super nice.

Being silly with a statue in Krakow.
Grandmom was getting her workout in! :)
Don't let the pigeon(s)...attack the lady feeding them! (Little joke for those of you who dig Mo Willems with me.)
Well, that's not all, but those are some of the highlights. Don't worry, Donnie & DeWayne, I have a file of all the pix just waiting to be burned to CD for you. Just give me about 6.5 more weeks. :) Love y'all! Thanks for visiting!