Tour 2014- Friday, August 8

August 8, 2014: SIGHTSEEING!!!!!
Hello family and friends,
I hope your day is going well.
Today’s post is entitled Sight Seeing, not to be confused with sight singing.

After a hard previous day of scrubbing our fingers to the bone doing laundry, we shot out of bed and brushed our toothies in anticipation of a day on the town. After a delicious early breakfast we trotted out the door at 8:45, leaving our wonderful hosts alone and “Hopeless”. (heh heh) We walked to the train station and with precision and exceptional hand-eye coordination, caught the 9:30 train into Warsaw. We tootled our way down the tracks, as happy as blue jays, never minding the rain dripping down the train windows.  We were undaunted by the weather, knowing that we had an entire five hours of museum time, street foods, coffee shops and architecture ahead of us to enjoy.

Upon disembarking, we split into three groups. One group headed towards the palace and another to the Fredric Chopin Museum. My group went to the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Around noon our group staggered out of the museum in a daze, overwhelmed with information and very hungry. Thankfully a Kabob shop was close by, and I was not disappointed by the wonderful hot juiciness.

We caught a bus to E. Wedels for delightful chocolate drinks, and rendezvoused with the rest of the choir to walk to our evening concert. We arrived at the church parish and changed into our concert clothes which Lavern had kindly ferried into Warsaw.  The Reformed Church of Warsaw was a beautiful cathedral. We felt privileged to sing in this church for such a kind and gracious audience.

Thus we ended the long day at Pizza Hut, and a bus ride back home.

-John Sommers

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