Nateland: Trip to Poznan, Poland

Here are some more highlights from the trip:

Getting ready to start another day touring the city with my beautiful family:

Here we are at the local market. This evening Sunni and I came back and bought foods for dinner. We bought fresh peirogi, which are Polish dumplings. These were filled with potato and cheese and a few had a meat mixture. They were excellent. To go along with this, we bought fresh mushrooms and onions that we grilled, some fruit, and beet slaw. The Polish love beets. Apparently they have a beet soup as well. Sunni wants to try it, but we haven't gotten there yet.

Sunni's been jibbing me about hat on facebook. It was a gift from my parents when we arrived here in Poland. Actually, not many people my age wear them here, but several of the middle aged and older gentlemen do. I kind of like it. It keeps my head warm anyway.

This is the inside of a Franciscan church we visited.

Most of this day it rained, which is what it's done mostly since we arrived in Poznan. So, for the afternoon I had the brillant idea of going to a mall. Of course, we had to walk to the mall so we got all wet anyway. The mall was neat, though. We don't usually seek them out when traveling but this one is in an old brewery here in Poznan, so it's sort of historic.

We stopped for a rest and refreshment. Here's my youngest enjoying the foam from Momma's cappucino.

The next day we went down to the Old Market Square. It's a beautiful area. There are a few museums and historic churches as well as shops and cafes. Here are the boys feeding the birds. They had fun.

The Town Hall is the centerpiece of the square. Every day at noon, a trumpeter plays a little tune and then these goats come out and butt heads 12 times. Everyone stops and watches. There was a local school on a field trip there yesterday. All the kids would cheer with each head bump.

Just down from the square is the Parish Church - a former Jesuit college. Here is the inside - also beautiful. There was lots of pink marble and paint in this one, plus the outside of the church was painted a salmon pink with white trim. Not your normal church colors, but it worked.

The ceiling in the Parish Church. Our oldest liked trying to find Mary and baby Jesus in the paintings. Sunni said it was like a spiritual "where's waldo". :)

Here are our little goats butting heads.

And then the snow came that afternoon. As you can see, it was blowing hard! The boys loved it. They've never been in snow like this!

My sweetie in the snow.

And me: artic man!

After the snow stopped, we had a couple of inches so we went back out and played some more. Snow angels, snowmen, snowball fights. It was all a good time!