Outside Prague

Prague is a beautiful city but when you leave Prague the surrounding countryside is also breathtakingly beautiful. The spring brings the yellow rape flower. The plant is used to make canola oil and there are fields and fields of it outside of Prague. Today we went outside of Prague to a horse farm with one of Sofia's friends from school. Her friend Elisabetta and Morgan (Elisabetta's brother) have horseback riding lessons and my friend Susanna (Elisabetta's mom) asked us if we wanted to come with them today to see the animals since we had a car. It sounded like fun so off we went. The girls liked seeing the horses as well as the rabbits, geese, dogs and cats. There were also a LOT of dandelions which Ali loves. I think Ali could pick dandelions all day. She picked so many she could barely hold them in her hand. It looked like a giant wedding bouquet. All of the dandelions Ali picked though were gone before we left though b/c the girls realized they could feed the dandelions to the horses. We had a lot of fun feeding the horses. The drive back into the city was nice too since as we drove the girls would say, "flowers out my side" or "flowers out Ali's side" or "flowers out Sofia's side" etc. It is nice that my girls can take time to notice the beautiful scenery around them. These are a couple pf pictures of the fields of rapeflower in bloom.