Sunday, September 11, 2005

In Memory of September 11, 2001

September 11, a day that changed all of lives forever!






All of the victims and their relatives are in my prayers...

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Well, I finally got a new car.........j/k



I bought this car yesterday for my 3-1/2 year old niece. She does not actually ride it yet, but loves to sit on it and push the buttons, push it around and place her toys in the secret compartment under the seat and boot. She especially loves the song that it plays as well as the beeps and lights. The music is very pleasant and not too loud...

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Trip to Kudowa/Czermna ( kaplica czaszek).

Kaplica Czaszek/Chapel of the Skulls



A chapel whose interior is completely lined with skulls and bones.





The entire walls and ceiling of the Baroque chapel are decorated with three thousand human skulls. Another 20 thousand are deposited under the floor. This singular work was done in the late 18th century by a local Czech-Polish priest , who wanted the future generations to remember the victims of the bloody religious wars of the 17th century, the two Silesian wars in the 18th century, and the cholera epidemics that plagued the region.........