February 15
Brace yourselves, readers. There are like 40 pictures. I kinda went crazy with the posting... and I even kept out about 90% of the pics I took. Yikes. ;) I've got to be honest- I didn't do a lot of historical prepping for this trip. I just took in the sights like a classic naive tourist. Here, friends, is an old, fancy astrological clock. It's pretty darn cool.
Doesn't this look a little... off? They literally built other buildings right into that church, and then made the church into an art gallery. Hmm. Nathaniel was stoked to be in this square, because his prep for Prague consisted of watching the first Mission Impossible which has this square and the bridge in some of it's scenes.
:) it was cold.
For the majority of the day, the little two were bundled in the stroller and William walked. The trooper didn't even complain most of the time. He spent his time watching out for pigeons.... and then terrorizing them... while I took pictures. (note the awesome sidewalks!).
Fly away birdie!
We found our way to the old Jewish Cemetery. It's has the cemetery from the Jewish community before WWII and it also has a museum. The latter has artwork from Jewish children during the war and also a rooms and rooms with the names of those from the local community who were killed in the war.
They were restricted to this small space-- I can't remember if that was all the city allotted or if it was consecrated, etc... But all of the stones and graves were one on top of the other.
Yes.. a family photo in a cemetery? Why not.
This stone had pieces of money and small written notes in it. A friend told me that they are prayers, and when she visited (in warmer months) they were found in the walls too. A lot of the headstones had small pebbles placed on them too.
Charles bridge! Famous! I don't know why... Oh man. I should hit Wikipedia...
but... it has COOL sidewalks! Seriously. I want to pave my driveway and sidewalks like this at home. Wonder how the HOA would feel about that...
Fly away pigeons!
See all these stairs? Charity and I hauled our 2-kid full BOB stroller up that whole thing. Nathaniel had just successfully challenged in a gym 1000 pound challenge and was... worthless for strength for our entire first two days here. ;) He felt sheepish in response to the looks Charity and I were getting, so he hung back a bit and shepherded William up the road.. haha!
This kid. Man. he was a trooper. He seriously walked ALL over that town!
Quite a view! I think I should make this picture into a puzzle. ;)
Officially the most lavish "resting place" I've ever seen.
This church was so old, and so, so beautiful!
Hmmm... What's the message here?
Nathaniel-- getting friendly with the locals.
Gate to Charles Bridge.
The buildings in this city are so amazing! Everywhere you look, it's just beautiful art.
More pigeon time. It was funny- at one point W got into a really bad mood (poor guy was really tired!) and in response to my attempts to bribe him or cheer him up he said "I don't want to do anything! I don't like anything! I don't like presents, I don't like chasing pigeons, and I don't like ice-cream!" Poor passive-aggressive lad.
I can hear Andrew's "EIHHHH" when I see this picture.
Ah. So tender, this boy....
I love when he looks at me with those "help me, I'm so tired eyes..."
And then 1/2 a second later I get this:
Yup! There's my William.
It was COLD. I love their pink noses. :)
One.
Two.
Three little monkeys, all on the spinning toy.
Yuck. We came upon the remnants of a winter ice-skating rink. They had scraped all the ice off of the rink, and my boys were in heaven climbing on it.
Free from the stroller at last!
Prague, by night. :)
These trolly cars were so retro/cool looking!
We kept the boys out late. It is just the simplest thing to do when sleeping in a hotel... Cameron was such a ham while the other boys were sound asleep in the stroller. :)
This... seems like some sort of copyright infringement to me... no?
Considering going out to Rave it up. We eventually decided against it.
