Family Trip to Prague

Right after school got out, we took a trip to Prague. We spent 3 days in this beautiful city. Definitely one of my favorite cities in Europe. The first picture here is Jac in the main square in Prague. It is one amazing big square. The square is surrounded by beautiful old buildings. This is where people gather after work and this is where the street performers entertain.
The next picture is Ryan in the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora, in the Czech Republic. Basically in 1870 a wood carver was hired by this church to make art from the bones in the church's crypt. 40,000 people's bones decorate this church. Garlands of skulls and femurs adorn the cielings and the central chandelier is made up of at least 1 of every bone in the body. There is a coat of arms and the artist signature made from bones. This is one of the pyramids of the leftover bones. This may have been one of the most creepy sights that I ahve ever seen.
The next 2 pictures are from the Prague Zoo. It is the best Zoo that I ahve ever been to. I've never been to the San Diego Zoo, so what do I really know. The Hogle Zoo takes a few hours to go through. The Atlanta Zoo takes about an hour. The Prague Zoo took us 10 hours. We think that we saw everything. It was amazing the amount of wildlife they had and it's amazing how close they let us get to the animals. Jac got to pet a camel. In one of the exibits a bat flew right at our heads and scared us. The orangatan was on the other side of the glass. The monkey cages were not cages. They were islands with moats around them to keep the monkeys on the island. These two picture are in the lemur cage, where we were allowed to walk around amoungst the lemurs. Most of the habitats looked like natural habitats, but with the possibility to get really close to the animals.

Here is a view of our humble home when we bought it. It's much nicer now that we've racked the leaves and planted some grass. It has 3 bedrooms (a little small now that we are a family of 3), 2 bathrooms, and a cute little creek in the backyard. Also there was a noisy dog nextdoor that almost bit me, but the pound came and took it away. Hu rah.

For anyone that hasn't been in the loop, we now have two children living with us. Hopefully you all know about Ryan is is now six months old. You may not have known about my older daughter Jannica. She is six and she has come to live with us. We are so excited to have her with us, and we see it as a blessing that we have her in our lives.