Getting Hitched

(Written 5/20)
One minute you are climbing over the ruins of a 500 year old castle of the Teutonic Knights, the next you're pants-shopping for a Polish wedding! I don't know if this kind of thing is a regular occurrance for most people, but it was a first for me.
I came to Torun on Tuesday, from Poznan, and got in touch with Monika. She provided a comfortable place to stay her nice (and conveniently located) flat. She must have enjoyed my company as I enjoyed hers, because suddenly I found myself invited to the wedding of her cousin. I had only planned to stay in the city until Friday. It is now Sunday, and I was up until 3am last night celebrating the marital union of two people whom I don't know, but who seem lovely nonetheless. I am told that the wedding was a traditional Polish one, but in all honesty it wasn't much different from the "traditional" American ones that I have been to. The most surprising thing about the whole affair was the food. It just kept coming and coming! We arrived at the hotel for the after party around 6pm, and fresh food was served every 15 minutes to half hour from then until 5am the next morning. Surely the solution to solving the problem of world hunger is to have a Polish wedding. Insane! I love it!
As for Torun, the city is celebrated as the birthplace of the great astronomor Nikolai Copernicus who is credited with observing that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around. Of course, this blasphemy led to him being excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Silly man, using science to describe the world...