Happy Birthday, Susi!!!

Back to School

The three kids are back in school. We dropped Chiara off at Skidmore on Labor Day. Can't believe she a sophomore. She has a single this year, happy about it, the girls next door are friends from London. I spoke to her yesterday and she sounded pleased with classes and such.

Laura Started 7th grade on Wednesday, she has a new teacher this year. Though she was uncertain the first day she likes her now. I got to meet the new teacher at a class dinner last night, I liked her, she is smart and funny.

Nicky is also back at school in 6 grade, the bus ride is shorter this year and one of his friends, Charles, is on the bus with him. On the first morning the bus was 2 hours late, this morning they came in a more timely manner.

Nicky's bus

Back Home

NYC

Summer is almost over, we are back in NYC. Chandran starts school on Thursday and the kids have a few weeks left of vacation. More photos on flickr

Montreal

DC

Saugerties

The Lake

Back again

Susi left for Africa yesterday.  At the airport with teaching assistant and fellow students.  The other pic is at Swami and friends gathering  at Canandagua Lake.

Singapore "Trick-eye" museum

Poland slide show.

Fire tower of St. Mary's church. The trumpeter plays here.

Dinner at Wierzynek, founded 1364

Herrings at Wierzenyk

Market Square from Wierzenyk

Examining a menu

In the underground museum. The partial stone walls are the stalls of the 15th century market.

Ashwani and Jess consider the amber.

Really glad it rained. 

Wentzl's.
If you click on this, you'll hear the Hejnal.

In St. Mary's

Trumpeter playing the hejnal.

Fire tower

Grunwald Memorial. Barbican gate and St. Mary's in the background.

Stairs of the fire tower. Ewa and I decided to skip this climb.

We sat here on top of the market instead.

Gdansk

We are in Gdansk. I really loved Kraków. One of the best museums I've ever seen is their archaeological museum. It's under the main market square. It's the remains of the 15th century market. Also, the trumpeter was lovely. And the cathedral. And the concert we went to was fantastic.

Gdansk is nice, but more touristy. Yesterday we drove up to the spot on the coast where Ewa used to spend summers. The Baltic wasn't all that cold, and I wished I had brought brought my swimsuit.

We went to Auschwitz and Birkenau.

We stayed a night in Lodz, where Ewa grew up. It reminded me of Rochester, but more Soviet. We visited the home of an industrialist that had been turned into a museum. Our hotel was very, very chic. It was in he industrialist's factory. Now we are going to see the Solidarity museum.

I have put some pictures on Flickr.