"So, how long have you two known each other?"
Kate and I looked at each other and smiled. The look on the woman's face when we answered, "a little more than 21 years" was pretty priceless. A strange mix of disbelief, shock, then turning to a general "wtf?" After watching the varying emotions cross her face, Kate helped clear things up. "He's my brother." "Oooohhhhh."
Other highlights of the week included trying to instruct a woman - initially thought to be Czech, so I spoke to her in my very broken version of that language - on how to use Kate's camera to take a picture of the two of us. After much confusion, it turned out the lady was Russian (so she understood my Czech as well as she did my English), and had correctly taken about 3 photos of us over the 10 minutes or so we were standing there.
Kate's visit also marked the arrival of a few desperately needed things - most notably chocolate chips and WARM WEATHER! "Warm" is certainly a relative term, as it made it only to a whopping 43 degrees Fahrenheit, but I can't begin to describe how nice it was to walk around outside without the winter jacket zipped all the way up, scarf wrapped tight around the neck and hat on head.
Simply put, a great week. As promised, we ended her last night a little drunk on Wenceslas Square and had a Czech sausage. Kate's raving about the sausage made it seem as if the rest of the week paled in comparison.
"So Kate, how did you like Prague?"
"All I have to say is that the sausage was amazing."
A day after Kate's exit, Heather's boyfriend's came for visit. So now we're pretty well stocked on chocolate chips and American TP. Stocked so well that when making our weekly choclate chip pancakes, Hunter quipped, "If I can count the chips in the pancake, there aren't enough." Amen!
A couple weeks ago I made it to a local hockey match, my first live European sporting event. The singing and general boisterousness was a ton of fun to be in the middle of, but I did find a couple things a little amusing. Some of the most raucous moments occurred when "If You're Happy And You Know It, Clap Your Hands" was played (sans words) over the loudspeaker. In addition, at the midpoint in the match (exactly at 10 minutes into the second period), the song of choice, with words this time, was "Sha-na-na-na... hey hey hey, good-bye." I'm no expert, but it seems to me it might be better to wait until the game is just about over before playing that.
That's all the news that's fit to print. Daylight savings started today. It's pretty nice to be typing this at 7:15 PM and have it still be light outside.
Ahoj
Other highlights of the week included trying to instruct a woman - initially thought to be Czech, so I spoke to her in my very broken version of that language - on how to use Kate's camera to take a picture of the two of us. After much confusion, it turned out the lady was Russian (so she understood my Czech as well as she did my English), and had correctly taken about 3 photos of us over the 10 minutes or so we were standing there.
Kate's visit also marked the arrival of a few desperately needed things - most notably chocolate chips and WARM WEATHER! "Warm" is certainly a relative term, as it made it only to a whopping 43 degrees Fahrenheit, but I can't begin to describe how nice it was to walk around outside without the winter jacket zipped all the way up, scarf wrapped tight around the neck and hat on head.
Simply put, a great week. As promised, we ended her last night a little drunk on Wenceslas Square and had a Czech sausage. Kate's raving about the sausage made it seem as if the rest of the week paled in comparison.
"So Kate, how did you like Prague?"
"All I have to say is that the sausage was amazing."
A day after Kate's exit, Heather's boyfriend's came for visit. So now we're pretty well stocked on chocolate chips and American TP. Stocked so well that when making our weekly choclate chip pancakes, Hunter quipped, "If I can count the chips in the pancake, there aren't enough." Amen!
A couple weeks ago I made it to a local hockey match, my first live European sporting event. The singing and general boisterousness was a ton of fun to be in the middle of, but I did find a couple things a little amusing. Some of the most raucous moments occurred when "If You're Happy And You Know It, Clap Your Hands" was played (sans words) over the loudspeaker. In addition, at the midpoint in the match (exactly at 10 minutes into the second period), the song of choice, with words this time, was "Sha-na-na-na... hey hey hey, good-bye." I'm no expert, but it seems to me it might be better to wait until the game is just about over before playing that.
That's all the news that's fit to print. Daylight savings started today. It's pretty nice to be typing this at 7:15 PM and have it still be light outside.
Ahoj
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