When I was in Poland over New Year's, my family spoiled me rotten. I only knew a couple of them from before this trip, but was immediately welcomed by the whole group upon arriving. A week was planned of sight-seeing, trips to nearby Krakow and Wroclaw, and skiing in the Czech Republic! Not to mention I learned the most important Polish phrase ever: "Jestem feyna Kanadieska dziewucha" (I am a nice Canadian girl) followed by a close second: "Jestem glodna" (I'm hungry). I had a wonderful time and am looking forward to visiting again in the summer.
The day we went to Krakow started out fairly normal. My (third?) cousins Adam and Michael picked me up early and we drove the 2.5 hours to the city. We saw this AMAZING salt mine and walked around the city center for a couple hours, taking in the architecture and trying to find the significant buildings. Krakow is a cool place!
We headed home around 7pm, well past dark, and traveled most of the way back on a main highway. But the last leg of the trip was more in the backwoods, where the roads are narrow, 2 laned, and not likely to have any lines painted on them. It was fun whipping through these curvy, dark back roads at medium-high speeds (don't worry Mom, only medium-high) and things were going along very routinely. It had been a full day of activity and I was getting tired and ready to be back and rest.
As we picked up speed after we exited another small town we entered a forest area. As I exhaustedly watched the road up ahead, it suddenly changed from its flat, normal self. We came to a quick stop to find a tree, flat out across the road, that had apparently gave up on remaining upright. It was a fairly large tree, but it seemed to have smashed when it impacted the highway and was in convenient pieces for us to drag off to the side of the road. It was not a stormy night, nor even windy if I recall, so it was especially odd that it had chosen this particular time to just fall over. This road wasn't highly traveled, but there were enough cars on it to conclude that it had probably happened fairly recently being that we were the first on the scene...what are the chances!
So I guess maybe it was just trying to get to the other side...?
1 comment:
Jokes in action...as if they aren't bad enough in "make-believe"
:-)
I'm just glad it decided to cross at a time when no one there :-)
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