Today, our first official full day of the Rzeszow festival, we all woke up confused. With no one exactly sure how the day was planned out, we were not sure if we had proba or if we were going to Łańcut, a palace built in the 1600s for the lubomirski family. In the end, we visited Łańcut, which was unlike any other palace i have ever seen. It had variety, with different styles ranging from beautiful baroque architecture to entire rooms showing chinese influence. It even had a huge building dedicated specifically to carriages and hunting trophies from all over africa. Afterwords, we all moseyed into town where a group of us found a delicious Pierogarnia with a huge selection of pierogi. We munched on the different types like peach and vanilla, ruskie and even pizza flavored. They were delicious. Later that day was the parade through Rzeszow and the weather was not the best. It literally rained on our parade. Still, there was a crowd of smiling faces alongside the street as we marched and waved our way through the old town. We sang our songs, chatted with people on the side of the road, and joked around with little kids, who were smiling from ear to ear, carrying their mini flags they had collected from other groups handing them out. At the end of the parade all forty-three groups stood huddled in the main square for the opening of the festival, cold and wet. The speeches given from various people seemed to go on and on, but we had some fun to pass the time. We danced around and made some of the guys look like stare babas by putting scarves on their heads. We arrived back at the dorms after many of the other groups and ate our bag lunch kolacja in our rooms. Later that night, some went back to the main square to party and some stayed back to get some sleep for practice the next morning. And despite the disorganized mess in the morning, it wasn't a bad opening day to the Festival.
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