May 15, 2011
Our ten day vacation started off with all of us being very excited to leave Kiev with the hope we would be escaping the cold to get some sun. I think mother nature decided that life would be too good to give us nice weather because instead of sun we had rain and lots of it. But hey its a vacation nonetheless so I can't complain. On Saturday, April 30th, Jennii and I headed to the train station. We got on a train that took us to L'viv. This was by far our favorite train! It was super clean, the right temperature, and the top bunks had bars which made us a lot less worried of rolling off. The train ride was also during the day! These things all made the 9 hour trip go a lot smoother. We arrived in L'viv. Once there we needed to find a bus that would take us to Krakow, Poland. The only thing we knew about this bus was its license plate number and a name (that none of us could pronounce). Could you say lost? For some reason I was chosen to go find the bus. Have they not learned from previous experiences that I am really good at getting us lost? After a 20 minutes of searching we found our tiny bus amidst all the double decker buses. It was a small little 20 seater that looked more like a mini van. This turned out to be super convenient because we each got our own window seat and had plenty of room to spread out. None of us knew how long it would take to get to Krakow what with our luck of getting across the border. But we figured it couldn't be longer than 5 hours. I mean we were a TINY bus! We were very VERY wrong. We arrived at the border and we were seriously 20 feet away from the gate. We began to get very hopeful and started to make guesses on when we would get through. The longest we thought it would take was 3 or 4 hours. Well 2 hours went by and we still were not even THROUGH the gate. We seriously were so close. We played a few games that kept us busy and after 3 hours we made it through the gate... but that was just the beginning... We had to go through the grueling process of collecting the passports - getting our passports stamped for leaving Ukraine-being bored- 5 hours-trying to get comfortable- returning the passports- driving a few feet- stopping- driving some more- repositioning- collecting passports- getting them stamped for entering Poland - 7 hours- returning passports - driving a few feet- stopping- falling asleep- waking up- watching the sun rise- 9 hours- giving passports again- being so confused- needing a toilet- driving a few feet- 11 hours- finally out of the border- bathroom break- 12 hours- can you say RIDICULOUS! I don't care how much I want stamps... it is so not worth waiting that long. Do not ask me why it took that long because I have no flipping idea. It was a great way to start our vacation =)
*On the border again, I can't wait to get off the border again*
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