Day 6: When we were supposed to go to Auschwitz.

Let's start off by mentioning it was a high of 91 degrees in Krakow today, and the bus had no air conditioning or windows. It was easily 100 degrees on it. This is a very key point for later in the post.

We started the day with lectures and a tour of a desert/forest/tree plantation. It was too hot and rather uninteresting. Except they have a giant dump for heavy metals like lead and arsenic that we got to see.

Nothing like giant hills of poison to start the day! But it only gets better. A girl started to get sick on the bus. She was crying, and turning bright red, and had trouble walking. So we had to pull the bus over and take her outside to lay down and cool off. In the mean time, some passerby called the cops on us saying there were "kids playing on the road" so a Polish cop comes up, breathalyzes our bus driver, and asks Kasia a lot of questions about why we didn't call the Polish 911.

So eventually she takes a taxi and we go to a nearby McDonalds to meet a new bus with air conditioning. We ate dinner, got awesome glass coke cups, and got on the new bus. It had pink curtains, and we dumped it the Pimp Mobster Bus.

When his phone rang, it was the sound of bullets. His phone was also gold bling. He wore gold chains, and there were feathers above his window and a lot of other random sketchy decorations.

So there we were, back in Krakow, having not seen Auschwitz because despite the fact that the girl got a taxi home we still had to drive the 40 minutes back instead of the hour to the concentration camp. Everyone was disappointed, but at least we got impromptu free time.

We decided to spend it downtown, where we saw these fake statues.

And a fantastic dance troupe.

And this guy with fire batons.

Overall a very eventful day. Finally got caught up with blog posts, now time for facebook and Flickr.

Oh, and for your enjoyment, I bring you a chicken in a box and the dreadlock mullet.