Monday was laundry day as we are heading to the mountains on Wednesday. Aneta is still not feeling 100% and it seemed like a good day to stay close to home. However, she had to go to her "work" for a few minutes and left me the keys so I could actually leave the apartment and get back in if she wasn't home. She even took Ania with her. I lazed around here until near noon enjoying my breakfast and the quiet. Then I walked up to the village and stopped in at my favorite Italian restaurant and ordered a KAWA tall with milk (a latte). It was so warm out I took it outside to the patio seating and enjoyed the midday sun while I sipped away. When I finished I walked across the street to a clothing store and a shoe store I had noticed before but never been inside. I found a beautiful accessory for something I had purchased as a gift for my daughter-in-law earier. However, the youngster behind the counter could not find a price, could not tell me how much it was, would not speak English (although she readily admitted studying English in school), couldn't figure out who to call and finally hid in a corner to get away from me! Eventually an older lady returned to the shop and looked up the price and sold the piece to me. That nearly took an act of congress but I left happy. Nest I went to the Buty (shoe store) and found the cutest shoes ever. I bought some Christmas gifts for folks at home, as well as some adorable boots for Ania. I was apprehensive about size for Ania so I called Aneta to see if she was headed home yet. She was in Knurow - basically right outside the store I was in so she brought Ania and we tried the boots on her. They fit just fine so that bit of Christmas shopping is done.
After shopping Aneta wanted to go get something to eat and she had a particular restaurant in mind. I wasn't hungry, having had breakfast so late in the morning, but I went along for the company. I had Zurek soup and it was delicious for about $2. Aneta and Ania had full meals and said the PIerogi were delicious. The restaurant was really cute and tucked away in the bottom of one of these cement block apartment buildings so that unless you lived in the vicinity you would never know it was there in a hundred years. I liked the decor but Aneta thought it was a bit "cold". She doesn't like anything very contemporary as it seems to remind her of the "communistic era". She is a Polish Patriot through and through and recoils at anything that reminds her of the difficult past thrust on her country by the Russians.
After dinner we walked to the town market square of Knurow - which Aneta thinks is quite an enthusiastic overstatement. The square is very small and there aren't many shops but she says Witek, who is from Knurow, is very proud of their market square. Aneta is from Gliwice and finds the suggestion that this is a legitimate market square, laughable. There was a very nice children's clothing store that I managed to spend 15 minutes browsing through while Aneta tried to manage Ania's mood outside in the cold. I soon tired of browsing and we walked back to the car and headed home where it would be warm and cozy. Remember how warm it was at noon? Well by 4 pm that was over and the temperature had dipped into the "zimno" (very cold) range and I only had a very light cotton jacket with me.
See you tomorrow.
Linda
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