All good things come to an end Taking Mom to the airport in an hour.→[More:]

We had a great visit. We saw pretty much all of Warsaw and Krakow, met my friends, ate fabulous meals, and talked nonstop for 16 days. I'll miss the time we spent together - my seven-hour train journey home will be tough - but I feel refreshed and loved and I'm sooooo happy she came - the first person from my world back home to visit me abroad. A few highlights -

- a game we invented, in which we tried to come up with paint-swatch-like names for the radically-dyed colors of hair we saw every day ("Cranberry." "Cran-apple." "Cran-carrot.")
- visiting the Galicia Jewish Museum
- trying to compete with each other over who could order the best thing on the menu when we were out to dinner (final score 9-6, victory Mom)
- the Wieliczka Salt Mine
- getting all the family gossip :)

I can't wait to travel with her again. Yay!