I’ve finally made the decision to return to Texas within the next two weeks. I am looking forward to being *home with the kids for a while, listening to my fabulous music collection, playing the piano for hours a day, lifting weights again, eating good food, and oh! looking for a job so I can maintain my porn habit. I’m not looking forward to the August heat, especially since the summer here in Poland has been so mild.

My weekend in Warsaw was really great. I met my friend at the Marriott, we checked into the hotel Dom Literatura (across from the castle in Old Town), toured the castle, walked to Lazienki Park (about an hour south), went through a contemporary art museum near there, drank duzo piw (a lot of beer), walked/stumbled back, cleaned up and rested, went to a jazz concert in the Old Town Square, ate a really nice meal, listened to street musicians, then went back to the hotel to sleep around 10:30. Sunday wasn’t as exciting or interesting, but we did have a nice visit over a few Polish beers. He got on a train to Moscow at 14:00 and I left to return to Lublin about thirty minutes later.