On the last Friday of our vacation (April 28th), Art started feeling sick. He had a fever, chills, and diarrhea. We even took him to the emergency room in Piotrkow Trybunalski (the nearest town to where his mom's family lives in rural Poland), who said nothing serious was wrong with him. Upon his return to the US, he went to the hospital there, where it was finally diagnosed that he had salmonella poisoning! By this point (he found out Thursday), both his dad and I had started getting the same symptoms. Jerzy started feeling ill on our flight to Halifax Sunday afternoon....and I started feeling bad overnight on Sunday. So we've all been pretty crappy (pardon the pun!) for a week now.
We blame some goat's cheese we bought and ate from a vendor on the path towards the salt mines outside of Krakow on the Wednesday (April 26th). I now know I'll never be doing that again! Having salmonella poisoning sucks..but the plus side is that I lost 10lbs walking around Europe....and at least another 5-10 since I've been home! Wheee!
Now...on to Europe! It was the best trip I have ever been on to date! :) I have never had so much fun or learned so much or SEEN so many amazing things in such a short period of time! We're working on our pics (well, Art is right now...I'm waiting for the DVD he sent me of the pics)...we took over 600 pics in the 12 days! I don't know how to explain everything I saw and did without making this blog entry so big....so I'll just say (for now), wait for the pics, they'll explain it all for me! :)
For now, here's a few pics of our trip!
One of my personal highlights of London was seeing something Harry Potter related. I'm a *huge* Harry Potter fan...so I made Art and his dad go with me to King's Cross Station to see the display they have for Platform 9 3/4! :)
On our first weekend in Poland, we were in Wroclaw, Art's birthplace. We headed out on the Saturday night (April 22) to the bars with Tomek and Magda. Tomek is Art's godmother Zofia's son and Magda is his girlfriend. While we were there, some local university students were taking pics of the bar patrons, so we made the Polish website! Wheee!
I'll have all my pics up soon, I hope!
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