First Full Day In Poland!

Hello Friends!!
I am loving Poland! It is a beautiful country! Today I had a lot of mixed emotions!!

We got up and left by 6:45am to go to Auschwitz. It was a long 3 hour drive there anticipating what we would see. JT, Alex and I ended up falling asleep on the way over there. (They had missed their alarm, so we had to get them during breakfast). We got there and watched a 20 minute video on the history of Auschwitz. Then we had a tour guide take us around the camp. It was a 2 hour guide, and very emotional. There were times where I cried and there were times where I just looked at everything and prayed. It was hard to imagine that thousands of people were tortured there.

We saw rooms filled with human hair, glasses, luggage, shoes, and other valuable things. There was a prison in the camp where they would make 4 people go in a little room, a yard square. They had to stand there all night. People would die there because of lose of oxygen, but if you didn't die, you would have to work another 12 hour day shift the next day. They wouldn't be able to sleep cuz they had no room to be on the ground. It was emotional to see those little rooms. Then we went to Birkeneau, the one they use for the movie Schindlers List. It was emotional too.

After that, we went to Krakow and did some souvenir shopping. We saw some pretty interesting characters! There were about 20 men dressed up as Fred from The Flinstones, at an outside bar. Then they walked around the square in Krakow. It was really funny!!

Well, It's one in the morning here and we gotta get up for Church. So, enjoy back home in Indiana. And, don't forget to comment and let me know how your doing :)

Mwahh!!

Ayla