Europe!

On Friday I leave on a Very big trip. By far the biggest trip that I will be doing before I leave home and venture off into the world on my own two (hopefully well grounded) feet (due to my terrific parents). Poland, Germany, France, and Italy. Oh. My. Goodness. What did my dad hear on the news the other day? Poland is currently in a deep freeze and there have been a couple of deaths. What country did we decide to first go to?! Poland of course. Deep freezes naturally attract us, apparently. Especially my mom. Actually the main reason I  am personally very excited to go to Poland is because that is where Pope John Paul II lived before he became pope. We are even going in the very church where he heard confessions and preached- the Krakow Cathedral. If anything is going to make me zealous about my faith, it will be that. Not to mention that we are going to the Vatican a week or two later, oh my!! And a German soccer game.... hmm... surely there has to be something holy about soccer, too! We're also staying in a castle for one night in France. And going to Auschwitz, which hopefully we can handle ok. I can't really fathom this trip. To me, it's incomprehensible. I do not think I'll actually believe we're going until we step into Poland.