Showing posts with label Czech Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Czech Republic. Show all posts

Monday, November 11, 2013

Prague finale

 Sunday started off so sunny and and lovely!  Our first stop was to see Prague's dancing house.  
It truly looks like it is dancing.  
 Here's the whole gang!
 The weather was great and the boys were itching to let off some steam, so we stopped at playground right near the river.  
 We made sure that we didn't bring our dogs, wine, and marijuana to the park!  
 The park was basically a giant ropes course.  It was really cool!  


 This pic and the next one were taken from the park.....what a view!

 We walked a bit and found a street performer juggling fire.  The boys were entranced!  The day before we saw a giant bubble maker girl.  This city had lots of street performers.  
 The city also had lots of graffiti and street art.   
Next we had lunch.  While we were eating it started raining....and didn't let up for the rest of the day.  
 We decided to let the boys do some souvenir shopping. 
 Lincoln wanted some nesting dolls and this place had thousands of them!  
 They even had a Pirates of the Caribbean nesting doll.  Who would have thought????
 We were cold, wet, and more wet!  We found a coffee shop and sat until it turned dark.  
 After sitting in the heat drinking hot chocolate we were happy!  
We decided to go explore the city at night.  
 GROG??  Lincoln spied this sign!
 After seeing Prague at night, our cold rainy yucky afternoon was worth it.  



After the morning playground time, we walked by a restaurant with a picture of a rice dish.  It looked so good.  We were fairly close at dinner time and decided to give it a try for dinner.  After sitting down with the menu, we learned it was an Uzbekistan restaurant.  The food was delicious!  
We made it a fairly early night and started day three at Aqua Palace.  It was a big water park.  We all had a great time before our drive home!  This Prague trip was fantastic!!!  

Prague day one

We went to Prague for the long weekend with the Grogans.  
 This city is beautiful!!!!
 Our first stop was the Prague castle.  
We took a self-guided tour.  
 The castle cathedral was magnificent.  There were amazing stained glass windows and lots of GOLD!

 The castle is perched above the city.   We were able to get some great views!  

 It was really fun having our friends on the trip.  
 The boys were very silly!
 We found this awesome sugary bread at a festival early this summer, and haven't seen it since.  Apparently, it is a Czech thing!  It was all over the city.  To the left of Nate's head is a big roll of it!
 We crossed St. Charles bridge and took some more pictures of the castle.  
 We walked to the Old Town.
 The boys studied clocks this week.  
I took this picture so they could show their teacher the astronomical clock.  
 The highlight of the trip for me was the Folklore dinner Brianne arranged for us.  
 They picked us up late (7:15) and the show was 2 1/2 hours (hence Link's face).   
It was LATE, but we had such a good time!
 We enjoyed a traditional Czech dinner, dancing, and singing.  
They encouraged audience participation, but Ethan was the only one who participated.  
He tried out the horse hair instrument.  
 It only cost us 3,500 krone.  It was so funny paying with thousands this weekend.