More thoughts............

Guten Tag,

It was so fun to shop for polish pottery in the place where it is made. I would love one of these giant replicas to put in a garden at home, ha! I love buying fun things for those who I know love polish pottery as much as I do. You know when we were first in the military, and I first learned abou polish pottery, I really did not like it. As the years went on and I had friends who used it in entertaining and decorating I began to find the warmth and versitility in it. It has its own personality that either you like or dislike. I am a person who loves to mix and match china patterns one of the reasons I also love Fiestaware. What is so wonderful I can mix my polish pottery and Fiestware together with such ease. That funny thing....I created a the same fettish in both of my daughters....we all love dishes! And what does Casey do, she marrys a guy whose mom is as bad as us when it comes to dishes. Hey we all have our passions! So as I was saying it was really fun to shop in Boleslawiec, but there are a couple of things Lennie and I thought interesting.

First, of all, I am convienced the Amercian military wife has made polish pottery what is is today in America. Interestingly enough we did not find we were treated with much kindness. I do not expect anyone to speak Engish to me if they are not American, but we thought it interesting, that they did not even try to speak English to us, or try to engage in conversation with us....they seemed to just want our money. Now, the prices were amazing and now that I am back in Germany I wish I had bought more pieces but you live and learn. Most of the patterns I was familiar with but there a few new ones and a couple of new concept pieces that I found very interesting. I still love polish pottery but I wonder if we love it more than the pottery people love us...or is it just our money they love? Secondly, and I am serious, if you have any extra cash setting around I would say invest in Poland....we could not believe all the new everything going up around us everywhere we went. Roads, houses, new houses everywhere, apartment buildings, railroads, businesses...it really was evident this is a country that has found its freedom and expanding in every element that freedom brings. Thirdly, and this is what really touched our hearts...every time we went into a town or village...people of ALL ages were coming and going from the churches. It totally amazed us. It was heart warming to hear the bells peeling all hours of the day!

Well, the week-end is almost upon us again. Tomorrow we are going to go to the Mosel. Sunday we are going to go downtown and enjoy our favorite Italian resturant and hang out at the Christmas Market. So until Monday or Tuesday...ciao .....and have a blessed week-end!

Tschuss,
Debby

Our trip into Dresden was hilarious. Now most of you know Lennie can fly millions of dollars worth of jets but even with a GPS we could not find our hotel. We were laughing so hard by the time we got there we were ready to pee our pants. The darn thing kept telling us to turn ...ready....down the railroad tracks! It would not change no matter what direction we were coming from and believe me we tried every direction. Now, if we could have gone down the train tracks without getting killed it would have gotten us there but there was no way. At first I was ready to kill Lennie because he would NOT stop and ask for any help...hey he had the GPS, ha! He was bound and deteremined he was going to win this battle! I finally just decided to relax and see how this all went down. One hour after we arrived in Dresden, less than 1/2 mile from our hotel we finally arrived! Modern gadgets still are not perfect, ha! Maybe there is something to walking, taking a bus and a train! :)