Saturday, January 31, 2015

Lazy day.

As January comes to an end there are only 11 months until Christmas :-) Tomorrow we will definitely take down the tree and put everything away until the next one.

It was a lazy day for us. Joan washed dishes, I studied Polish and then we took a break to watch an old basketball game of the Chicago Bulls. We were either fortunate or farsighted enough to record many such games, not knowing that someday we would be living in Poland and have no access to what was a ritual of watching American football and basketball games. Of course, we were fortunate enough to live near Chicago during the "glory" years of Michael Jordan and never missed a game of those 6 championship years.  Now were surrounded by European football which makes about as much sense to us as American football to Europeans.

We were planning to take a trip south to meet a new relative but the people we usually stay with no longer have or use electric heaters on their second floor where we usually slept so we will wait for warm weather before we go, probably after we return from Spain.

W styczniu ko艅czy si臋 jest zaledwie 11 miesi臋cy a偶 do Bo偶ego Narodzenia:-) Jutro b臋dziemy na pewno si臋 w d贸艂 drzewa i umie艣ci膰 wszystko si臋 do nast臋pnego.

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Planowali艣my wybra膰 si臋 na wycieczk臋 na po艂udnie, aby sprosta膰 nowym wzgl臋dna, ale ludzie zwykle pobyt ze nie ma ju偶 ani u偶ywa膰 grza艂ek elektrycznych na drugim pi臋trze, gdzie zwykle spa艂, wi臋c b臋dziemy czeka膰 na ciep艂e dni, zanim p贸jdziemy, prawdopodobnie po powrocie z Hiszpanii.