Family visit!

After my long week in Italy my family was coming to visit March 27 with Aunt Jane, so I had a lot to look forward to. It was a good thing I rested up before hand because we walked A LOT while they were here all over the city. Its safe to say Aunt Jane knew a lot about the city from her reading and I got to see quite a bit that I might not have without them coming. It was so great to see them and spend time with everyone, and was at a perfect time too--right around the halfway point. Also, I certainly didn't complain about the meals that were paid for...

We did a ton of stuff around my admittedly lax class schedule, so that worked out perfectly. We saw the castle, old town square, Wenceslas square, an old castle and area called Vysehrad, and a small town called Melnik which played host to a church with a basement full of bones from plague victims and a wine tasting cellar where the lights somehow got shut off after about 40 minutes and we were down there in teh pitch black until we found our way out. That was certainly a bizarre day, capped off by this very "interesting" black light theater show. We went to a restaurant where the table had beer taps right on it and I introduced them to some wonderful Czech food that I think they had all had enough of after a week. We went to U Fleku, a famous beer hall here where they brew their own fantastic beer. Its safe to say that it might be tough to go back to Coors Light when I get back to the states.

All in all, we did a ton in the week they were here and saw virtually everything Prague has to offer tourists. Aunt Jane was definitely extremely well prepared for the trip. Basically, though, it was just great to hang out with the fam and see people from home. We could've done a lot less and just sat around and it still would've been fun (though surely not as much).

On a side note, I haven't posted many pictures lately because our Internet has been really slow, but I'll try to continue putting them up a bit at a time. Again that's at www.snapfish.com, email is w.patrick.kerns@gmail.com and password is prague. Ciao for now.