The Best of Poland

This summer the boys spent two weeks at Wood Skateboard Camp, near Radom, Poland. While they were in camp, Bob and I toured Poland. Before dropping the boys off, we stopped to see the Göltzsch Viaduct, the world's largest brick bridge, the Basteibrücke, near Dresden, and the town of Görlitz, where The Grand Budapest Hotel was filmed, on the German-Polish border.

After dropping the boys off, Bob and I drove to Warsaw. There we saw the Palace of Culture and Science and the Stare Miasto (old town),

as well as the Monument to the Warsaw Uprising, Praga, and the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall.

From Warsaw we went to the Masurian Lake District, where we visited Swieta Lipka,a pilgrimage church, and Wolf's Lair, Hitler's home and bunker from 1941 until 1944.

Our next stop was Kazimierz Dolny with a side trip to Prostki, where Bob was born.

From there we traveled to Zamosc and Liski to visit Bob's aunt and cousin.

Then we were off to Lublin to visit Przemko, where we watched the Perseids meteor shower from his garden.

After picking up the boys, we spent our last night in Poland in Wroclaw.

Hawaii and Chicago

Turtle Bay, Oahu

Sunset over Turtle Bay

Turtle Bay Resort

Bob and Will on Oahu

Bob on Kauai

Ha'ena Beach, Kauai

Alex boogie boarding at Ha'ena

An Aloha Beer on our lanai at The Cliffs Resort, Princeville, Kauai

Philip at Hanalei Bay, Kauai

The Na Pali Coast, Kauai

Hanakapi'ai Beach, Na Pali Coast

Hanakapi'ai Falls

Hanakapi'ai Beach again

Waimea Canyon, Kauai

Waipo'o Falls, Waimea Canyon

Maha'ulepu Coast, Kauai

Gillin's Beach, Maha'ulepu Coast

Pu'u Poa Beach, Princeville, Kauai

Alex in the St. Regis Princeville Resort pool

On the St. Regis Princeville Resort lanai

Alex's 13th Birthday on Maui

Wai'anapanapa State Park, Road to Hana, Maui

Lava tube at Wai'anapanapa

Swimming in one of the pools of Ohe'o Gulch, Maui

Haleakala from the Pi'ilani Highway, Maui

Molokini Crater, Maui

Sailing to Molokini

Alex steering the Trilogy II catamaran

Sunset from our lanai in Lahaina, Maui

Halema'uma'a Crater, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island

End of Chain of Craters Road, Volcanoes National Park

Hiking in Kilauea Iki Crater

Halema'uma'a Crater at night

Kahalu'u Bay, Kona Coast, Big Island

Green Sea Turtle, Kahalu'u Bay

Boogie boarding Kahalu'u Bay

Our swimming pool in Kahalu'u

Sunset on Mauna Kea, Big Island

Millennium Park, Chicago

Chicago from the Hancock Observatory

With Cara on Michigan Avenue

My cousins and Aunt Mary

The boys with their cousins

At Great America with Max

With Baba and Digo and the cousins

The Kozan Family