Meal With Mead

This is the meal we had with the mead from yesterday.  Our first item was bacon wrapped fried cheese.  Who could resist such a treat?  Not us!  Andreas and Yvette had hunter stew while I had pumpkin soup.  Theirs came in fancy bread bowls and was actually made with a rye based broth.  Both of them liked it.  It also came with sausages to cut up and put in.  We also split some pierogies and creamed mushrooms.  We all liked the mead so we decided to do a sampler set of it.  They had four different meads and we took sips of all of them to decide which we liked best.  

Andreas was intrigued by the Hunter's Feast on the menu, so we decided to return later in the week for Yvette's birthday.

Down The Mine- Tourist Edition

The mine experience on the tourist route is very different from the miner's route.  You still have to go down a -lot- of stairs, though.  They're wider and more shallow.

This first antechamber is at the bottom of the stairs.  You can see it's been machine gouged with lots of salt visible.  There are mannequins and dioramas along with large signage.

The Last Egg

I really didn't like the looks of the seventh egg, so I went ahead and stitched a second version of the first one. I think it came out well.  There will be a charm in the middle when I put it together.  This means I'm done with all the Ukrainian egg ornaments!

Lines And Squares

I finished up the sixth of seven egg patterns.  This one is a bit yellow to me, though it's not as yellow in person.  It's also a really bold and graphic design.

Meady Meal

 We had a nice-ish evening, so Andreas, Yvette, and I went to a little Polish cafe and ate outside.  It was cold enough to sample the mead, though, so each of us got a different grade.  Mine was the 4x (Jadwiga), and it was excellent.  The 1x was really good too, but the 2x had a musty smell to it that put Andreas off.  The rest of the meal will be in another post.

 
 

Safety First And Last

This is some rescue gear from the 1980's for the mine.  The mine still employs three rescue teams, two of which were working a coal mine collapse in Germany when we were in Krakow in October.

Serenity Temari

 This is a gift for a friend who's a big Firefly fan.  The idea is that it mimics the Serenity Valley flag.