Somebody once said that excitement is anxiety without the stress. That's like my father helping me to tell my right hand from my left by telling me my left hand is the one that the thumb points to the right.
Today all the tickets have been purchased for our upcoming July trip to Europe: flights, hotels and rental car. I will not let myself add up the totals. I will be surprised when I get the credit card bill at the end of the month.
Austin is in charge of getting himself an international driving license and of downloading the app which gives driving directions in English for all of Europe so we don't have to stress about Polish or Croatian alphabets.
We will stay in Frankfurt at the same hotel where cousin Nora and I stayed when we traveled to Frankfurt in 2006 for the dedication of the "Stolperstein" in memory of Grandpa Salomon. We will visit the house where my grandparents lived and see the brass plaque on the sidewalk of the house. We will visit the memorial wall called the Mauer where the names of the 11000 Frankfurt citizens murdered by the Nazis are engraved. We will say a prayer for all my friends' and relatives' parents and grandparents who are memorialized there. We'll do some sightseeing and then fly to Krakow where we will visit Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps where Uncle Wolf was murdered. We'll visit the Galicia Jewish Museum before heading out to see the countryside with the guide who will take us to the archives where my relatives' information is listed. Perhaps we will find the cemetery where our great grandparents are buried.
Then the guide leaves and we rent a car to drive to Vienna where we will stay in the same hotel that my husband and I visited when we were in Vienna on vacation. Grandfather fled from Germany to Vienna when he was freed from prison, but the Germans had already taken over the country. Then we follow his footsteps to Zagreb, Croatia where he was murdered at Jasenovac concentration camp.
Four flights, seven hotels and a car rental! Now I have to find travel insurance.
Today all the tickets have been purchased for our upcoming July trip to Europe: flights, hotels and rental car. I will not let myself add up the totals. I will be surprised when I get the credit card bill at the end of the month.
Austin is in charge of getting himself an international driving license and of downloading the app which gives driving directions in English for all of Europe so we don't have to stress about Polish or Croatian alphabets.
We will stay in Frankfurt at the same hotel where cousin Nora and I stayed when we traveled to Frankfurt in 2006 for the dedication of the "Stolperstein" in memory of Grandpa Salomon. We will visit the house where my grandparents lived and see the brass plaque on the sidewalk of the house. We will visit the memorial wall called the Mauer where the names of the 11000 Frankfurt citizens murdered by the Nazis are engraved. We will say a prayer for all my friends' and relatives' parents and grandparents who are memorialized there. We'll do some sightseeing and then fly to Krakow where we will visit Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps where Uncle Wolf was murdered. We'll visit the Galicia Jewish Museum before heading out to see the countryside with the guide who will take us to the archives where my relatives' information is listed. Perhaps we will find the cemetery where our great grandparents are buried.
Then the guide leaves and we rent a car to drive to Vienna where we will stay in the same hotel that my husband and I visited when we were in Vienna on vacation. Grandfather fled from Germany to Vienna when he was freed from prison, but the Germans had already taken over the country. Then we follow his footsteps to Zagreb, Croatia where he was murdered at Jasenovac concentration camp.
Four flights, seven hotels and a car rental! Now I have to find travel insurance.
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