Well, we're back!Let me first start out bz sazing that this kezboard has the y and the z mixed up. Zou will have to deal with it because it is a pain to backspace for all of them. lol.
Michael and I are now sitting in front of our desks at work, trzing to catch up on our emails. It's a strange feeling to be back.
We spent the last couple of dazs in Prague, visiting our friend Dan. He seems to be verz verz happz now, so that was great. Congrats, Dan on finding a job!
Anzwaz, before leaving, there were so manz people who told us that thez loved Prague. We found this to be a little strange because we had never reallz thought about visiting the Cyech Republic before, and reallz onlz did so because Dan had recentlz moved there. But over and over again, we were told that Prague was everzone's favorite European citz. And I must saz... I can't blame them there. Prague is beautiful! It is called the citz of 1000 spires, because there are spires (from churches or bell towers and such) everzwhere along the citz skzline. Verz little of Prague (if anz) was damaged during WWII, so it still maintained that old look that we all know and love about Europe.
Dan and his friend, Erica, took us to a cute little beer garden for dinner the first night. The food was great and the food was cheap. Onlz 67 crowns... which is under $3.00. The place was perfect, out of the waz and in front of a prettz old monestarz. We ended up going there again the last night because we loved it so much.
The rest of the time, Michael and I did our job as tourists and saw as much as we could of the city. We went to the Jewish Quarter, which is supposedlz the best in Europe. Apparentlz, Hitler used Prague to store the things he had collected from the Jewish, and planned on opening a "museum of the extinct Jewish race". Ah, how thoughtful of him. Ugh. However, the Jewish Quarter was actuallz verz interesting. We learned a lot about the Jewish Religion, and traditions. Thez had the names of all the Jews from Prague that died during the war (onlz 10,000 of the 180,000 survived) hand written on the walls of one of the synagagues. Verz verz touching.
We also went to a black light show, called "Aspects of Alice" (a unique to Prague thing to do). It was about the adventures of Alice after she went to Wonderland, and the steps she went through as she grew up. It was reallz neat and well done, but mazbe a little confusing. In case zou have never been to a black light show (I hadn't before this), thez do this low budget special affects through out the plaz. Everzthing is lit up bz black lights, and so anzthing located on the stage that happened to be black, could not be seen. This includes the people wearing all black, making the show work. For example... things flzing across the stage in slow motion - this was reallz someone carrzing it across the stage, but since thez were in black, zou couldn't tell. It was neat. Artsie, but neat.
Finallz, we saw Charles Bridge. Much to mz amayement, it was the bridge that I had seen in someone's picture from some time long ago. I saz "to mz amayement" because I remember seeing this bridge, and the church spires bezond it, and thinking "wow, what an exotic place. I doubt I'll ever go (I didn't know where it was), but wow!". And here I was, standing on the same bridge, the one that I had just assumed I'd never see. So, neat!
Hmmm.... I guess that is it. It had to end sometime. And now, I have a meeting to go to. I hope zou enjozed the emails. It was certainlz fun to write them, but more fun to experience them. With the exception of a few small things (and large slugs), we loved everzthing about the trip. Feel free to ask anz questions zou maz have. Mz office hours are 8:30am-5:00pm EST, Mondaz-Fridaz.
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