After the market we headed to Wawel castle, perched above Krakow on a hill. Chris got some excercise pushing Eliot up the hill.
The cathedral was beautiful inside and out. I can't tell if Eliot is leaning towards engineering (he loves to examine the doctor's scale causing the doctor - not me! - to proclaim him a future engineer) or the clergy. He insisted that we go in the church, growing impatient as we waited for Chris to buy the tickets. He often insists on visiting churches and seems to like to be in them. Once inside this particular cathedral, he spotted the throne where the Polish kings were crowned for centuries and declared it "Eliot's!" Perhaps he is envisioning a career in royalty? Whatever he chooses, he has our support....
Part of visiting the cathedral is climbing the tower to see the really, really big bell. Eliot liked it. I was smiling thinking of my pet parakeet who liked to play with the clapper of his bell. This would have been a challenge for him.
The castle courtyard. We toured the royal apartments. Eliot was not too impressed with the seemingly (at to a toddler and his mother) endless rooms stuffed with treasures of artwork and furniture. The most interesting part for me were the tapestries that a Polish king had imported from Brussels. We went all the way to Krakow and saw tapestries made in our temporary hometown during its heyday of tapestry making. Eliot was most interested in the large bathtub that was installed for a country leader (no longer a monarch) in the 1930s. He wanted to investigate but, alas, a rope prevented him from clambering into the tub.
After the market we headed to Wawel castle, perched above Krakow on a hill. Chris got some excercise pushing Eliot up the hill.
The cathedral was beautiful inside and out. I can't tell if Eliot is leaning towards engineering (he loves to examine the doctor's scale causing the doctor - not me! - to proclaim him a future engineer) or the clergy. He insisted that we go in the church, growing impatient as we waited for Chris to buy the tickets. He often insists on visiting churches and seems to like to be in them. Once inside this particular cathedral, he spotted the throne where the Polish kings were crowned for centuries and declared it "Eliot's!" Perhaps he is envisioning a career in royalty? Whatever he chooses, he has our support....
Part of visiting the cathedral is climbing the tower to see the really, really big bell. Eliot liked it. I was smiling thinking of my pet parakeet who liked to play with the clapper of his bell. This would have been a challenge for him.
The castle courtyard. We toured the royal apartments. Eliot was not too impressed with the seemingly (at to a toddler and his mother) endless rooms stuffed with treasures of artwork and furniture. The most interesting part for me were the tapestries that a Polish king had imported from Brussels. We went all the way to Krakow and saw tapestries made in our temporary hometown during its heyday of tapestry making. Eliot was most interested in the large bathtub that was installed for a country leader (no longer a monarch) in the 1930s. He wanted to investigate but, alas, a rope prevented him from clambering into the tub.
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