Christmas 2008

Christmas in Texas

Tom as Santa

Jayson's excited look


Dad's magic tricks


I think this is the Agatha Christie computer game Laura played for hours!


Mom got a rock...


....it was an iPod thing


Mom gave Laura & I these cute wind-up toys

The bunny does flips and the ladybug tips over and lands on it's feet



Reading Calvin & Hobbes, I think.

Winter has arrived in Krakow!!

Wszystkich Świętych

All Saint's Day





Anioł Zemsty - Angel of Vengeance in Rakowicka Cmentarz
(wiki picture)

In the states cemeteries are generally not thought of as a desirable place to visit, especially after the sun has gone down. In Poland, however, whole families go out on November 1 and visit graves, put lighted candles and flowers on all the graves in all of the cemeteries and it lasts late into the night. It is quite beautiful actually.

Bob, Olga & Wes (Olga is our Polish teacher's daughter)

Baby Nadar, he is so sweet!!!


John Paul II monument

Ofiarom Komunizmu - Victims of Communism

Family Grave - Gregorski


Jan Michalski---------------------------Tadeusz Kantor






Unknown Soldier's grave------- Soldiers Monument Sep, 1939



Great Uncle of a friend here.


Unknown Soldiers



Olga lighting a candle at the family grave of John Paul II



Soviet Soldiers Monument



British Military


Olga puts a candle on a British grave

Vienna with friends

There were a lot of windmills on our way to Vienna
and beautiful fall colors





Vineyards in the fall (not my pictures)









Lipizzaners at the Spanish riding school in Vienna
"Now if they would only move that hay a little closer.."








Hoher Markt clock in Vienna





Sabine showing off a dress...Karissa wanted me to
wear a black & white dress in her wedding...
what's wrong with this one?





Castle in the Czech Republic on our way back to Poland