Girls Trip

POLAND:
Lisa and her favorite gals from Heidelberg were going to Seiffen, Dresden, and Poland for a shopping trip and she invited me along.  It was a super fun weekend filled with shopping, food, and girl talk.  What could be better?!  I’ve been wanting to check out Polish pottery.  I’m not a huge fan of Polish Pottery I must admit, at least that was until I saw this line that Lisa and several of her friends have collected pieces of.  I took one look at it and I kinda “Imprinted” on it so to speak in cheesie Twilight jargon.  I bought two large bowls, some small platters, a small gravy pitcher, and one large platter.  I already had two smaller bowls and a small oval serving plate.  It has lots of colors like red, green, and mustard yellow as well as the traditional blue that is on almost every piece of Polish Pottery.  This town is filled with about 20 shops all hooked to the factories where they make it so it is priced more reasonably here….and hence the American military wives tradition of traveling to Poland for Pottery. 
    This was another line I really liked because of its brown color I thought it might be fun for Fall time with soup!  One of the stores was a little drive outside of town through the Polish countryside……so I snapped some photos.  We stopped for a late lunch at a Polish restaurant and tried Peirogis.  They are a hand made stuffed ravioli.  I got cabbage and mushroom as well as the Mediterranean salad with feta cheese.  Check out that FETA!  This whole meal only cost 4.50 euro.  In Germany it would have been 10 euro!  Poland is still recovering from the effects of communism and a very poor nation.  It was a little sad for me to realize. 
DRESDEN:
We headed for church first thing Sunday morning in Dresden which is only 1.5 hour drive from the Pottery town in Poland.  After Church we headed to downtown to quickly tour Dresden.                   These girls know how to have fun…. I however do not know how to get an action shot….
SEIFFEN:
I love Seiffen Germany!  It was one of the first things I did last summer when we had just arrived from the US.  This city is located in the region of Germany where all the wooden decorations for Christmas that Germany is famous for originated.  People travel from afar to buy:  Nutcrackers, Schwiboggans, Pyramid trees, smokers and several other wooden figurines.  I was on the hunt for more little girls for my collection plus 4 boys to represent my four favorite boys in the world, as well as more nutcrackers.  Of course I had lots of success and found a really cool smoker dude unlike any other smoker I’ve seen.  Seiffen is just a really fun city and I can’t wait to take the family sometime soon and let the kids pick something out to remember Germany by.  Then when they are married some day they can take it with them to their families.