Wednesday, March 23, 2011

"Is THAT a castle??" "No mom, it's just somebody's house..."

Greetings all, it's been a great couple of days. My parents are over the jet lag by now, and I have to confess that they've both been wonderful travel companions and I'm giving my mom a hard time with the title of today's post, she can tell a castle from a house. But every couple of hours or so the two of them will just look around and say "Wow! We are in EUROPE!" It is very flattering to be able to show them all the cool stuff and to have answers to a lot of the questions about castles and history and everything else that you pick up when you live somewhere long enough. It is SO nice to actually get to take a break and not have to worry about anything while we are out here. It is really one of the first vacations I can remember having where I can actually enjoy myself.

Since Saturday we went to church in Prague and we visited a concentration camp, a Jewish ghetto, and the museum of communism. Needless to say, it was a pretty heavy day. Kind of interesting when compared to our visit to the temple on Saturday.

Tuesday we went souvenir shopping in Prague downtown and then took the best scenic route ever across the Czech countryside, stopping in Kutna Hora to take a look at a chapel made of bones. I promise all the gruesome stuff is behind us at this point. We then made our way through the rolling hills to Olomouc. After some traditional Chinese take out, we hit the sack. Today we hit the town and saw about 1/3 of the literally dozens of cathedrals and landmarks, including two belfries and the best views of central Moravia all over.

Sister Bundilova has wanted us to come by for lunch for a long time, and my parents were introduced to Svickova, a really rich cream and vegetable sauce with pork. We then went to see two real castles: Bouzov and Štramberk. If you've been with us since the beginning, Štramberk was the first Czech castle I ever went to and the first trip we took with Renata. My parents were really excited to see both of them, and since there are so many castles that you see from the wayside.

Hope you all are looking forward to all the pictures :) see you soon!

Elder Anderson

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