Well we made it.  No problems at all.  The flight from Chicago left on time and was excellent.  The Frankfurt airport is quite a maze, but relatively easy to get around in.  We only had a couple of hours wait in Frankfurt and then off to Poznan.  The Poznan airport was a bit of a surprise.  I expected something bigger.  Extremely easy to get around in.  The plane lands and then you jump on a bus which takes you to the airport.  You get dropped off and walk right into the baggage area.  Within about 10 minutes your bags show up.  I stopped to get some information about renting a car.  I am not surprised, but if I was to rent a car at the airport the rate was 65 euros ($85cdn) and if I book online its 15 euros ($20cdn).  We walked out the front door and grabbed a taxi.  15 minutes later we were at the hotel.  

I did not expect to be at the hotel so early.  I thought for sure we would be at least a few hours before we got to the hotel.  We ended up there at about 10:30 and check-in is at 2:00.  We had to wait, but ended up getting our room by 12:00.  Needless to say about 12:05 we were sleeping.

Planning out the schedule for the next couple of days.  Tomorrow is going to be a walk to the Town Square and the Poznan museum.  We might actually wait until Saturday to do the Poznan museum.  Most of tomorrow will we walking around and checking the area out.

So far no problems communicating, but I don't think I would want to go too far off the beaten path without speaking Polish.  Oddly enough somehow you end of communicating.  It just proves a lot of communication has nothing to do with the words you speak.