SNOW!?!?

I woke up on Sunday to a winter wonderland. October and all of Kraków was covered in snow. 

The view from my room

Part of Wawel with Fall Leaves and Snow

The snow only lasted a few days. It snowed for two solid days pretty much non-stop and then it warmed up a little so it has all pretty much melted. It was quite a shock for me. I'm not used to thinking of October as the onset of winter. The strangest part was that all the fall foliage is still around, so it was like having two seasons on top of each other. The fall colors were now tinged with white. It was very beautiful.

Trees Outside of Zaczek

Shelley and Doro's Pumpkin

They don't celebrate Halloween here, really. But my friends' teacher brought pumpkins to their class for them to carve. The pumpkins here are really funny lookin'. They all have that weird pattern on the rind. 

On Halloween I went to a party hosted by the 'Couch Surfing' group. They hold a little meet and greet every Wednesday in a different spot around Kraków. It's a great place to go to meet new people from all over and it's fun to go to the big bulletin board in the squaTre and find out where the meeting will be this week. At the party I met lots of people, but they had a girl painting everyone's face and between that and the costumes it was impossible to see what everyone really looked like. It will definitely make next week's gathering that much more interesting. 

The party itself was pretty cool. It felt like being in a speakeasy. It was this old coffee shop/bar filled with tiny, round, wooden tables. The music was live. It was this guy dressed up as a scarecrow playing guitar and singing his heart out. He did a great job and played lots of classic American hits. It was a buzz with life inside but from out on the deserted street, it just looked like a coffee shop about to close up for the night.