Krakow - the party town of Poland

Hey all,
I'll be making this a quick one, to regain my control over my blog after Adam's novel of an entry.
Adam and I finished our stay in Zakopane this morning, after a huge rain out and decrease in temperature. We tried to be troopers and keep visiting places, but the rain and 10 degree weather just made everything hard to bear. We did however, drink beer to keep warm, and therefore had a fantastic time. Adam was convinced that our landlady (Ania who owned the house) was sneaking into our room to steal his underwear (sounds crazy, but actually is based on an earlier event in which she found his cleaned laundry and threw it out the window to him- yes, Adam was as freaked out as much as all of you are by that image).

Either way, we passed out last night, and woke up this morning at 7am in order to make it to the top of the highest peak in Zakopane, which is about 2km up in the mountains, and requires a 20 minute cable car to get to the top. We waited for a while, but managed to get up to the top by 9am in order to beat the crowd. Lemme tell you, the crowd were all idiots for waiting, because the only thing we saw when we got up there was fog and rain, and we were literally IN a cloud the whole time. We tried to walk over to the border to say that we made it to Slovakia, but we ended up FREEZING our asses off (literally, since with the wind it was about -2). We settled for saying that we threw a rock across the border, and came back to enjoy the feeling of warm blood in our bodies. We made it back, took our bag from the hotel (with Adam throwing suspicious looks at Ania the whole time) and took a bus to Krakow.

So far, we have walked around Krakow and enjoyed talking to people in our hostel (who, to my delight, are all Australian boys) and also frozen in the cold weather that has made its way here. The 35 degree heat that we had in Warsaw would be a great welcome compared to this - I constantly have to take vodka shots to stay warm (and how sweet it is).

Tomorrow, we will be going to Auschwitz, which will no doubt be a sobering experience, but in the meantime, we are making drinks out of our grocery booze and enjoying a Saturday night in Krakow. Here's to a fantastic weekend in Poland - cheers!