Vacation week

The girls are on vacation for two weeks. Luckily for us it has been quite nice outside. On Monday we decided to head out to the river near the girls school. I love the location. It is so pretty next to the river and very quiet and peaceful. The girls had ice cream and fed the ducks. I couldn't believe how close the ducks came to us. I guess they get fed very often and are not as afraid of people. I had to keep telling the girls not to walk quickly toward the ducks b/c they would fly away but I don't think they really got it since they kept doing it. Oh well, they had fun anyway.





On Wednesday, the girls and I headed into town to meet Jason. We went and helped him pick out sunglasses and then had lunch. We went to a pizza place Jason had been to before and while the food was good the service was terrible. Fortunately the girls were well behaved when they had to wait a long time for their food even when they were starving. After lunch we said bye to Jason, who headed back to work, and we headed to Vysteviste to go to the Lunar Park. It is a fair that comes to town I guess once a year although I'm not sure about that. It is basically a traveling carnival. The girls had a blast going on the kiddie rides and jumping on a trampoline. Having reached the point that I didn't want to spend more money I called it a day. We walked home through Stromovka park which was so peaceful and beautiful. The trees/shrubs are all getting their leaves and some of the trees have already flowered. I do love spring! It did rain during our walk home but it was still fun.



Thursday was also a beautiful day and we headed to my friend Emily's house. It is great having the car since Emily lives out of town. It was so easy to get there and stress free. No worries about catching the bus. The kids loved playing outside in the grass and on the swing set. There were games of hide and seek and racing around the house as well as playing in the sand box and making mud. We ate lunch outside and Emily and I had time to chat, although we had a lot of unfinished conversations as we were helping the kids quite a bit.

Friday was a low key day. The girls and I brought our computer into the shop since it died on Wednesday. It is very frustrating since we just bought the computer in November! The guy at the shop was helpful and easy to deal with so it was pretty quick to drop off the computer. He told me it would take 4-5 days to fix it. I was happy with that b/c I thought he was going to say 4-5 weeks. After dropping the computer off I decided to check out the markets in Holesovice since the computer store is right next to them. I had heard about the markets but had never made it there to see what they were all about. Now I can say that I didn't miss out on anything in the last two and a half years. The market was full of junk...clothing, sunglasses and purses. We came home for a rest and then headed out to see if we could find easter shaped cookie cutters. We had no luck and we took a lot of time so I didn't get the chance to make the cookies with the girls but luckily when Petra came to babysat she was happy to make the cookies with the kids. Jason and I headed off to our italian place for dinner where we ate dinner with our friends, Chris and Laura. We had so much fun with them we talked so much that we didn't finish dessert until 11pm! Time flies when you are having fun!

We completed a fun week with a trip to Karlstejn castle on Saturday (which I will post about next) and then Sunday we went to our friends house for dinner after church. It was nice to be able to have dinner on Sunday night and not worry about how late the kids are staying up since they didn't have to get up in the morning for school. We hadn't had dinner with our friends, Phil & Shanna, in a while so it was nice to hang out and chat with them. The kids had a blast playing in the yard and then preparing a show for us to watch. The show contained dressing up with a lot of jumping and twirling. It was quite entertaining.