REACHING THE MOUNTAINS

Today is a national holiday in Poland, Corpus Christi.  Here’s what I found from Wikipedia.

The feast is liturgically celebrated either on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, "where the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is not a Holy Day of Obligation, it is assigned to the Sunday after the Most Holy Trinity as its proper day".^[1] At the end of Holy Mass, there is often a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, generally displayed in amonstrance. The procession is followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. 

The part of this that affected us was that traffic was very light today.  That was the positive, the negative was that the processions stopped traffic and twice we had to wait for the people to clear the streets.    That wasn’t the only thing that slowed us down.   The shepherds were moving this flock along one of the busiest highways we have been on. 

We also stopped several times to take some pictures for perspective.  Here’s a Polish “Home Depot” .    Marlene also likes the many gardens we pass by.        The hills were getting a little bigger now.    As we came to the final pass into the mountains, we came across this monument.  Unfortunately we can’t interpret the markers that describe the event, but I can only assume this was in memory of the troops that defended this valley. 

 

Near by we found some animals grazing in the meadow.    

From this pass we got our first view of the mountains.

  

We proceeded into Zakopany which is truly a tourist mecca.             One thing you have to appreciate is that the Polish people really do like their “lody”, ice cream.    Every street has several shops and every shop has it’s specialty, but this one had a line of 20 people and the ice cream was sold by weight.  That’s about a $2.50 cone she is dishing up.

We found a nice room here on the edge of town.  It was near a meadow and we had a view of the mountains out our window.