Tuesday, June 5th (Prague)

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US! We celebrated our 3^rd Wedding Anniversary in the Romantic city of Prague. We decided to walk from our hotel, across Charles Bridge and up to the Hradcany (Prague Castle). When we got to the top however, we found out that the place was shut down because President Bush was there. We tried to find a place to eat lunch nearby so we could watch him leave, but we couldn’t find anything that Carla found tasty so we walked back down to town (the joys of pregnancy). We took Rick Steve’s advice on another restaurant called Kolkova but it turned out to be part of a chain and had the exact same menu as Celnice where we ate the night before. I made the mistake of having the exact same meal (it was a bit of a letdown) while Carla tried something new.

After that we strolled the Jewish quarter and the numerous synagogues and the Jewish Cemetery. This was the only place in town where the Jews could be buried and as a result they were buried 10 deep in places. Gravestones were stacked right on top of each other.

We went back to the hotel and hit the pool for a little exercise and the hot tub (Carla could only put her legs in). We went out to eat at Restaurant Zofin, a “Prague Institution” right on the water by Charles Bridge for a happy anniversary dinner, but even though they were open for dinner until 11pm they refused to seat us at 9:15pm (I think the waiter wanted to go home because a second waiter almost seated us). Instead they recommended the restaurant next door which was also tasty although not the “institution”. On top of it all, our waiter tried to scam us and double the bill but we caught on and he acted like he just made a math mistake. Overall it was a nice 3^rd anniversary dinner on the river. Of course we followed it up w/ some tasty, cheap gelato and called it a night.