Best day in Prague

So we were originally planning on heading to Plzen the day after Terezin, but to be honest after all the hiking around with cameras and the early mornings and in my case the time change still playing tricks (in fact I still couldn't tell you with any certainty what today is!) we decided to switch things up and stay in the city. It was a beautiful day and after our groundhog day breakfast we headed out to meet Roman Bily at the astrological clock for his popular Jewish ghetto tour. Actually Roman runs a short and long version of this tour as well as a communist tour and an underground Prague tour and if any of you come to Prague we can't recommend Roman's tours enough.

We left the former ghetto and made our way to the Mucha museum where in addition to the beautiful art nouveau master's work we saw a Japanesse man attack his girlfriend! No one ever expects public violence, or any sort of violence really, but in a museum full of beautiful artwork it seemed even more deplorable.

Next stop was the museum of communism, which appropriately enough is located next to McDonalds and a casino! Needing a bit of a snack before heading in, we bypassed Micky-Ds and went to a Pilsner Urquell pub next door and I somehow ended up with a liter of beer and a jar of pate :) Heather's choice of pickled sausages and cheese were good as well. Newly fortified we entered what turned out to be one of the most interesting museums I've ever visited. I remember images of the velvet revolution on my TV as a kid, but was really too young to understand and appreciate what was going on for these people. Now after spending several days walking the streets of Prague then seeing these same streets with tanks and police beatings and old ladies standing in front of a marching military the whole thing came to life.

Best of all the hurricane had passed and we were faced with facts of the situation and not tense with anticipation. A weight of sorts was off our backs and we could finally spend the day not worrying...much. lol a deep and heartfelt thanks to Don, Kim, and Cole for going above and beyond in looking after our home and cats in our absecence. Each having their own homes and animals and such to worry about and finding the time to check the damage and ultimately pumpIng out the water from our basement.