Chronicles of Cracow 6

OK had a big trip today so I figured I'd just fill you in on that and add some other random stuff.
So today we were going to go in the hot springs near a mountain, crossing the border to Slovakia! You know Slovakia, with famous people like Andy Warhol!, Paul Newmen (both just descendents of Slovaks), and ummm John Hertz of Hertz Rental Cars, and uhh that one hockey player..... yea that's about it. It was about a 2 hour drive from Cracow and I listened to my ipod with Maggy most of the way. I loved the border of Poland and Slovakia, it was just a sign. There is more in between states usually! Just a sign that said "Welcome to Slovakia, Home of Nothing Important!" Ok I added that last part. And damn it again my ipod shuffled to "Highway to Hell" when entering it like it's God's reoccurring joke or something. Anyways when we got there we went for a short hike which was nice, good weather. Poland (and Slovakia's) forests are about the same visually compared to Wisconsin (except no deer), I bet if you recognized tree's and plants you would be able to tell a difference but I can't. Out in the country they also have cows like us but the amount of them is split with sheep.
Ok now to the main story, the pool! It was being fed by a underground spring of like water with sulfur which I guess is supposed to do some good for your body. If you have ever been to Yellowstone's Old Faithful it smells like that so I assume it's the basically same kind of spring. They had a normal warm pool and an equal sized almost hot tub (almost as in it wasn't quite that hot). Now more importantly the people there made.... an impression..... as in they scarred me for life. Let me explain, so this pool is supposed to be good for you, so it's mostly older people, and by mostly I mean ALL, me and Maggy were the youngest there by 30 or 40 years. And then to top that off, you know that stereotype of the European guy walking around in just a speedo. THIS IS COMPLETELY TRUE. I mean they weren't all speedo's but it was basically really tight briefs, or very small briefs that were loose that looked like a diaper (which was fitting considering the people wearing them), or speedos (everyone should thank me for not including a picture). The water was really relaxing but you definitely had to be a "glass half-full" kind of person to enjoy yourself, either your swimming in a nice warm pool that's supposed to be healthy with a bit of a nostalgic smell (at least to me) or your swimming in the pool next to the 85 year old hairy chested old man who probably has alot of dead skin to lose. Man it was bad, don't get me confused, I had a great time and it was fun, I just couldn't look at a single other person there. It did make sense though, midday on a cloudy Monday, who else would have the time to go to this place. So after getting a lucky break and being the only in the males shower room, we left and stopped to eat on our way back. The two most common foods I have had here are pierogies which isn't a surprise because it was one of the only polish foods I knew coming here and, oddly enough, ice cream which is quite the favorite here in Poland, most of the time it's basically the same as the U.S's except sometimes.... WHO PUTS RAISINS IN ICE CREAM!?!?!? YUCK!.

OK so that's my story of the day, now heres just some random things that I can't make a whole update about so I just threw them at the end here.
-I have found myself craving American food, but not junk like hot dogs, Mcdonalds, or other fast food, more as in junk like Orv's pepperoni pizza, Roundy's brand fruit snacks, pizza rolls, and some Flamen Hot Cheetos! (they dont even have normal cheetos here! The official Cheetos here are like a wierd offbrand kind of Cheetos that are terrible, but they are the Cheetos brand!)
-answering "reader mail", I think polish women here are all generally thin just by the culture of walking and biking mostly everywhere and all the time, that's kind of the idea of what you do with your free time here, just go down to the city center and walk around and thats not just being a tourist, Maggy's parents often just take the tram down to the city and walk around, kind of like what we do at summerfest, or a better example is in Milwaukee, down by the lakefront where people are walking, biking, various activities, except it's everyone here not just a few people. Also the food is so much healthier I really can't stress that enough, even unhealthy foods are made of more naturally, if that makes any sense.
-Not really missing the family or home too much yet, only truly missing is writing for Follies, and my cat, Binky!

So that's it for now, sorry if there are any mistakes, usually I take two days to write one of these but I threw this out in about an hour and a half. Please keep commenting, again it motivates me to keep writing knowing people are reading it! Any thoughts or questions or things you want to know about Poland I will gladly address at some point. And Finally I know this is alot of text to get through and I havent done what I've wanted when it comes to mixing in pictures so thanks to everyone who does read this far. And a shout out goes to all my followers, Tamar, Kathleen, Myself (yea I follow myself, so what?) and someone else.... I can't remember... o well.