Mieskanie

Yesterday I fell asleep about 11:30 and slept like a rock. Today we got up early as usual and went for walk around Luka's neighborhood. I remember all of it from previous visits and notice that a lot of the houses have been painted different bright pastel colors to remove the drab gray look of the old communist times. A lot of them are also in the remodeling stages and in downtown Poznan there are tall construction cranes where new buildings are being built.

It was wonderful to see Rozia, Marek and Luka's little daughter again. She's 5 1/2 now and has changed and grown tremendously. She gave us our first polish lesson from a 5 year old.

Today we accomplished getting our cellphone working and looked at an apartment in Poznan on the west side. The section is called Grunwald. In Poland it is considered a high standard apartment meaning it's new, has internet, security, an eleva.tor and is in a good place. In the States, it would be just a normal apartment. It has a bedroom, living room, bathroom and kitchen. It's 1,500 zlotych a month ( about $600USD) but we liked it except it didn't have a washer machine and of course, no dryer. Almost no apartments have a laundry room or dryers. Every apartment has it's own wash machine............except the one we looked at :-(

So it was a good day for us with the accomplishments we made. They even delivered 3 more of our boxes today although the 23 are still stuck in Warsaw.

Got a few more well wishes from people who found our blog. That's always nice ;-)