More Cukrowskis!

5 June 2005
Apparently all Cukrowskis are really nice people! We had an unusual day today, leaving Paris (actually Vaux sur Seine and the wonderful Cummings), we drove (OK, Ken drove) to Lyon to meet Celine, Georges, and Claudia Cukrowski, whom we met via the internet and e-mail. In February, Celine, who is almost exactly our Katie’s age, sent an e-mail saying “I Googled Cukrowski on the internet and you came up. Cukrowski is not a common name in France, either. I wonder if we’re related.” After having communicated off and on for the next couple of months, we have now met face to face! We chatted while walking around town, climbed over 1,000 steps up to a church and a breathtaking view, shared a delicious late meal together at a nice French restaurant in the old part of Lyon (that included frogs’ legs, which were delicious, no kidding), and all in all, enjoyed one another’s company. Ken and Georges have shared the Polish documents they have with one another and have discovered that their people come from nearby towns. Georges is now continuing the search through the church baptismal records, etc. to go back further. However, as he said, “Ken, if it turns out that we’re not related, it makes no difference to me!”