Rachel and Katie Do Europe 2008: "Smells like berbaque"- Katie

Today Katie and I arrived in Krakow, Poland and instantly loved it. It is beautiful here. The building are medieval and there is so much lush greenery. We are staying at a really nice hostel and so far the beds seem comfy so that is a plus.

We got to our hostel late in the afternoon so we did not have much time to see the city. We did however have enough time to find some authentic Polish food and shove our faces. I had Polish sausage with onions and fries and Kate had potato pancakes with some sauce on top. The food was amazing!! After dinner we walked over to the main square in Krakow where we stumbled upon a bike race. We werent and still arent too sure how important it was and who won since we arent too familiar with the language, but it was really fun/funny to watch. Katie could not get enough of it. We sat and watched the men in tight biker shorts ride in (small) circles all the while wondering if they use the lavender Venus razors to make their shaven legs so smooth.

After seeing some of Krakow we can back to our hostel to plan out our next couple of days. Tomorrow we have scheduled to go to the salt mine which should be pretty awesome and then our hostel hosts a (free) authentic dinner so we are def gunna hit that up. The next day we are going to Auschwitz and at night see the Jewish Quarter. Our last day in Krakow we are going to see as much of the city as possible.

Below we have posted the few pictures that we took today and tomorrow we will post the pictures from the salt mine. We have internet here so we should be loading pictures everyday simply for your enjoyment.

P.S. Our title for this blog just so happens to be a quote from Katie that made us laugh for a good hour and has become our quote of the day. We are pretty sure it is a "guess you had to be there" type of thing, but nevertheless it makes us laugh. The story goes as follows: we walk out of our hostel discussing dinner plans. I think authentic food sounds good, Katie disagrees until she smells the food and it just so happens that it "smells like berbaque," which apparently is similar to Barbecue. We pretty much looked like freaks as we walked down the main street laughing so hard we were crying at this simple little error in speech. This is the type of thing that happens when you are hyped up on espresso and seriously delirious from way too many days of buses, trains, airplanes, pasta, and shitty beds.

XOXOX,
Dumb and Dumber