The Family and The Fishing Net
Dear Readers. The eagle has landed.
Jessica flew in safe and sound to Prague's Ruzyne airport on Thursday night, and we've got a few stories to tell now. Thursday night we got back and checked into the hostel where we were staying. Jessica was quite surprised to hear that we would be staying in a hostel, since for the past 11 days she had been in and out of 5-star hotels in Italy with her school trip. But after 3 days in the hostel, consensus says that she had a good time.
After checking-in at the hostel, we went to the Greek restaurant right next door. Jessica ordered her very first beer...the photo below proves it. Friday we walked around Prague all day, crossed Charles Bridge, and went to see a Black Light Theatre show featuring Beatles music. After that we saw a nice jazz band down close to the river Vltava.
Saturday, we went walking again to Hradcany (Prague Castle) which is quite a hike up quite a hill. We saw the inside of St. Vitus's Cathedral...nice stained glass inside, let me tell you. In the afternoon we met up with Tomas, Eva, and Zuzana, and had a coffee at a cafe (Tomas and I had beer of course). Then Tomas came with Jess and I to see Sparta Prague play Zlin in the quarterfinals for hockey playoffs. It was a good game, even if Jessica may or may not have had a cup of beer spilled on her by some drunken Czech fan (not Tomas...he may or may not have had the same cup spilled on his head). After the hockey game, the night somehow turned into Sunday morning. We went back to the hostel and met up with some friends we met there. There was a guy and girl from New York City (Dave and Olga), and a guy from Australia (Dwayne--Jessica has the hugest crush on him, that's okay though because I thought Olga was kind of cute too). Anyhoo, we all decided we'd spend the last night together by going out, so we went to a pretty cool music bar in a cellar-pub near the Old Square. We spent most of the night there, having some beverages and chit-chat and such. Then we thought we'd like to go dancing, so we went around looking for somewhere to dance at around 2:30am, but nothing really took our fancy. We decided on going back to the hostel to continue the chit-chat. Stayed up all night. At 5:30am, Jessica and I went back to Charles Bridge to see what it looks like when it is empty. Very much well worth it. It was so nice not having to squeeze through throngs of tourists...we had the bridge basically to ourselves. We also think we found the area where the beginning of Mission: Impossible was filmed. Pretty cool.
We went back to the hostel and got about 3 hours of sleep before we had to check out and come back to Hradec Kralove. But here we are now; tired, but here. Jessica came to classes with me today and talked to my students, which I think she liked. It was nice for the students to have someone new to talk to who is their age too.
So, enough talk, here's some pictures (enjoy):
Jessica and I, first night at the hostel
Jessica's first beer ever in a pub
Jessica in the Old Square
The group, sans Olga (the photographer)
Don't they look so cuuuute together?
Nice faces
Dwayne and Olga
The Group: Dwayne, Olga, Dave, Jess, and me.
Charles Bridge, packed full by the day
Charles Bridge, now empty in the early morning
Later the same morning
Wenceslas Square, empty
The Old Town, empty
Jessica, pretending to be like Kristin Scott-Thomas getting stabbed through the fence by Jean Reno at the beginning of Mission: Impossible
Jessica flew in safe and sound to Prague's Ruzyne airport on Thursday night, and we've got a few stories to tell now. Thursday night we got back and checked into the hostel where we were staying. Jessica was quite surprised to hear that we would be staying in a hostel, since for the past 11 days she had been in and out of 5-star hotels in Italy with her school trip. But after 3 days in the hostel, consensus says that she had a good time.
After checking-in at the hostel, we went to the Greek restaurant right next door. Jessica ordered her very first beer...the photo below proves it. Friday we walked around Prague all day, crossed Charles Bridge, and went to see a Black Light Theatre show featuring Beatles music. After that we saw a nice jazz band down close to the river Vltava.
Saturday, we went walking again to Hradcany (Prague Castle) which is quite a hike up quite a hill. We saw the inside of St. Vitus's Cathedral...nice stained glass inside, let me tell you. In the afternoon we met up with Tomas, Eva, and Zuzana, and had a coffee at a cafe (Tomas and I had beer of course). Then Tomas came with Jess and I to see Sparta Prague play Zlin in the quarterfinals for hockey playoffs. It was a good game, even if Jessica may or may not have had a cup of beer spilled on her by some drunken Czech fan (not Tomas...he may or may not have had the same cup spilled on his head). After the hockey game, the night somehow turned into Sunday morning. We went back to the hostel and met up with some friends we met there. There was a guy and girl from New York City (Dave and Olga), and a guy from Australia (Dwayne--Jessica has the hugest crush on him, that's okay though because I thought Olga was kind of cute too). Anyhoo, we all decided we'd spend the last night together by going out, so we went to a pretty cool music bar in a cellar-pub near the Old Square. We spent most of the night there, having some beverages and chit-chat and such. Then we thought we'd like to go dancing, so we went around looking for somewhere to dance at around 2:30am, but nothing really took our fancy. We decided on going back to the hostel to continue the chit-chat. Stayed up all night. At 5:30am, Jessica and I went back to Charles Bridge to see what it looks like when it is empty. Very much well worth it. It was so nice not having to squeeze through throngs of tourists...we had the bridge basically to ourselves. We also think we found the area where the beginning of Mission: Impossible was filmed. Pretty cool.
We went back to the hostel and got about 3 hours of sleep before we had to check out and come back to Hradec Kralove. But here we are now; tired, but here. Jessica came to classes with me today and talked to my students, which I think she liked. It was nice for the students to have someone new to talk to who is their age too.
So, enough talk, here's some pictures (enjoy):
Jessica and I, first night at the hostel
Jessica's first beer ever in a pub
Jessica in the Old Square
The group, sans Olga (the photographer)
Don't they look so cuuuute together?
Nice faces
Dwayne and Olga
The Group: Dwayne, Olga, Dave, Jess, and me.
Charles Bridge, packed full by the day
Charles Bridge, now empty in the early morning
Later the same morning
Wenceslas Square, empty
The Old Town, empty
Jessica, pretending to be like Kristin Scott-Thomas getting stabbed through the fence by Jean Reno at the beginning of Mission: Impossible
posted by gulldogg at 7:22 a.m.
3 Comments:
Glad to see Jess arrived safe and sound. You guys crammed n a lot of stuff over the weekend.Jen home from France and Spain.thoroughly enjoyed her trip.
Margaret & Lindsay moved into their new castle yesterday....magnificent!!! Saw Warren/Joe & Lorraines new homes on the weekend....coming along good and will be ready for them to move into June/July. Now I think I want a new house too!!
Time seems to be flying by and we still do not have our trip mapped out yet! Gotta get that done but I'm away curling this weekend and Vicky (from Edmonton ) will be here when I get back on Sunday, so we won't have time over the weekend but perhaps one night next week. Gramma B sends her love to you, she's up this week as she was meant to go up to Bert's but Marg very sick and best she not go and get the cold. Hope you & Jess enjoy her stay.......it will be a nice change for you! Talk soon...
Love Mom.
Hello again; By the time you read this your weekwith Jess will nearly be over if not already. I'm sure you had a good time and that she enjoyed her time with you.
Nice weather hear today, although still cold out there, but Spring is not far away now.Everything is fine here. Dull & boring as usual, but thats what happens when you get old, so live it up while you're young.
Love, Gram
big ups buddy, does everyone have a blog now? wow. I know more about people outside of this continent than in my own city,,,Mr. Rodrigueses...
hope things are going well Gulldawg.
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