seriously, my cd is skipping like mad. that makes me angry. also, forgive the terrible grammar and compete lack of structure and flow. I seem to have lost the ability to write over the summer. go figure. oh, and don't even get me started on all the confused tenses...
Bratislava to Zakopane, Poland. 4 hrs and one sweet detour.
it’s 21 degrees celsius today. not a bad day, too bad we had to spend 4 hours of it in the car. sometimes scared out of our wits. whatever, we made it here alive.
we checked into the hotel at around 3ish. our room is on the top floor, no elevator. (looking back now, that shouldn’t have been all that big a surprise.) it’s a pretty wicked sweet though, even if I can’t stand up straight in our room.
left again almost immediately to catch the last gondola up some mountain (I forget it’s name, and it was in polish anyway), but we found out that we missed it. decided to go to another mountain, this one was essentially in the city. so we’re driving just out of the city and we pass a sign that has our mountain’s name on it. Mx doesn’t see it but Mx(female) does. rather than saying, “oh hey, here’s our turn off.” she says, “that can’t be it.” so we keep driving. a few minutes later we decide to turn around and what do you know? that was it. made me laugh a bit. though to be perfectly honest, it didn’t look like the proper turn off, since it directed us to drive under the highway.
huh…there’s a bazaar under the highway…that’s a creative use of space…lots of souvenir stuff and some really strange cheeses. no word of a lie, I totally thought the cheese was plastic.
anyway, the point of all that was for us to go up the mountain and see the town from up high. got to take a fun train/cable car thinger. gravity powered (two of them running in opposite directions using their own weight to move). neat. we went up with a bunch of really loud kids. we just missed a huge downpour, but by the time we got to the top it was sunny again. Top was neat, but a total tourist trap (which I suppose isn’t all that bad, since what else would we do in Zakopane?) Unfortunately for everyone involved, I was a pretty grumpy bastard on account of being so damn hungry. sorry guys.
Once we got back down we had some of those cool cheeses, which were very smokey and extremely salty. Kx and I got some little sheep souvenirs and I learned some polish swears like a good little foreigner.
Dinner at the hotel was nice and very polish: cabbage rolls and mushroom soup, and some wicked homemade fruit juice.
after din din we made our way back to the room and just sorta crashed. I somehow managed to stay awake until 21:30…
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