Elder and Sister Moon's visit

The day after Karlo left a Senior missionary couple, the Moons,

came to Gdansk for a couple of days. They are serving in

Wroclaw, Poland.

We spent the first day of the Moons' visit to Gdansk at the Malbork Castle.

The next day we went to Hel.

Hel is a resort  town on a peninsula east of Gdansk.

Some of the road to Hel is lined with wild roses.

The roses in Hel are bigger than the ones in Alberta, Canada

We have arrived.

Our first stop was at the beach.

Here's Clarence touching the Baltic Sea.

There are some fairly nice restaurants in Hel.

We stopped for dinner at one of them, but we

didn't have halibut, so we couldn't say that we

went to "hel for the hal-i-but"

(Very funny, haha)

This missionary does not seem very happy in Hel.

We saw these two missionaries wanting to thumb their

way out of Hel. We gave them a ride.

The next day, before touring the Old Town, we went to the

historical park where the Upside-down House is.

This park tells us about the life of Kaszubians. They were

taken to Siberia and later returned to Poland.  Many Kaszubians

also moved to eastern Canada.

The Moons sat down for a moment hoping that the

rain would stop, but it didn't.

  

Kaszubians do beautiful, colorful embroidery.

Every color has a meaning for them.  One hue of blue stands for

 ocean, another for lake, yet another for river. etc.etc.

These beams of various colors support the roof/ceiling of

an open-air building in the park. 

I can't remember for sure what these handprints were for.

I think they were of some of the people who have made

donations to the building and upkeep of the park.

  

This is inside the Upside-down House.  See my wet coat.

Boy, was it ever raining.  It rained the last time we were too.

On the way home we stopped at our favorite perogie

restaurant.  Oh, those blueberry perogies were tasty.