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Sunday, July 01, 2007: Just heard about the bombing in Glasgow while preparing for the morning, luckily no one was hurt except for the weird beard that blew himself up. A taxi was hailed and we were off to the Wawel Castle. Absolutely beautiful, my perception of castles was totally different. They are almost a self-sustaining entity. They boast state-quarters, a church, dining area, armory, and many of other essential structures. It is amazing to see how influential Christ was through-out Europe and simply such a sad thing to see how so many could forget Him. Every street corner, doorway, picture, painting, and building has some historical structure with Christ on it. It will be great to see when all is back under His rule in the human form again. The Castle also boasted a Dragon’s Den where they believed a dragon lived for centuries. Walking through it, you could see why they believed this. It also amazed me to see draperies 60’x 100’ of Noah’s flood…WITH DRAGONS picking off some of the animals coming off of it…the faces on the animals where that of something scared. Shortly after we went back to the hotel for a brief resting break and grabbed a taxi and headed for Wieliczka to the salt mines their…please Google this as well! Absolutely amazing… this salt mine has been in operation for 900 years. Inside a full chapel with all statues but Christ made of pure salt. Christ was made of Wood…just in case of a catastrophic event he would still be there. This was definitely something I will never forget. On the way out we stopped and had dinner at a quaint restaurant that dated back to 1632. The food was great and they gave us complimentary chiseled salt from their local mine to take with us. We were now hailing for a taxi…when one arrived we got about a mile down the road and his smell was so overbearing we had to get out of the taxi and flag down another one. Poor guy probably just thought we were crazy Americans…we go one mile and get out…we didn’t tell him that he needed a bath but rather told him we weren’t feeling well. I suspect it was a respectable half-truth. Back to the hotel to sleep so that we can jump on the early bus to Oswiecim (what we know as Auschwitz). Check out is tomorrow at 12:00…we have a taxi arriving at 7:45 a.m. to catch an 8:30 bus. The hotel will hold our bags in a locked room for us…praise God! Hopefully we will get back and get to see Downtown Krakow before getting back on our train to Praha (Prague) at 8:42 p.m.
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