Day 3: Poland

We're only halfway through the day but I feel the need to do a blog update because so much happened this morning!

We woke up and caught a small shrew, which was absolutely adorable. Only two animals in 60 traps, don't ask me why. I guess the people who were trying to see hedgehogs at 3 in the morning had no luck though.

So this morning we went to see a castle and a dam. The castle was smaller on the inside than I expected, but very interesting. There was a guy in a hooded robe running around with an ax, I think maybe I should have worried. The view from the top was absolutely gorgeous. Have I mentioned I want to move here? There was a jail and kitchen from what I could tell. Apparently we just missed a 2000 person reenactment of a 6000 troop battle that happened at the castle hundreds of years ago.

Kashka says I am getting better at my Polish, I have memorized every phrase she taught me so far. It's a very interesting language, though tough to pick up because of how quickly people speak. I bought ice cream on my own today though, using Polish, which sounds silly but was an exciting  moment.

All of the buildings here are incredibly quaint. I feel like I am living in a painting or something.

Next we went to the dam, where a cross eyed polish man was drawing. Then all of a sudden, he pulls out an animal skin, which we figure out is a goat. Then we realize in place of it's head and feet are the parts of a very unique looking bagpipe. Fortunately for you, I have a video of him playing a goat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMKHV2lB-Y

Then he decided I needed to try it. Then it sounded like a dying goat! I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. It was so hard to play, I couldn't see where to put my fingers on the flute part.

That was about it for that day, now time to write the next one!