Our Last Day in Europe

We said goodbye to Spain and caught the plane back to Prague where we started this journey 3 months ago. We loved Prague and began to think that we were just Euro-happy when we arrived but we love it just as much the second time around. A very cold and dense fog has settled over the city, quite a contrast from the hot and muggy days we had here in August. We couldn't let the kids off easy and dragged them to one last museum, the sobering Jewish Quarter. It has the spookiest cemetery, and with the fog and cold it seemed even spookier.



The jews were forced to use this one plot as a cemetery for hundreds of years and they actually brought in layers of dirt to allow for more burials as it filled up. The headstones are packed in next to one another, all at crazy angles.

We also had to get in some more aimless wandering down narrow, cobbled streets.



Noelle's ram-horn hat is a hit and she gets a lot of compliments and cheek squeezings with it. She even got a banana from the old helper at the jewish museum. She has grown weary of my constant photography sessions and I promised her right after this photo that I wouldn't subject her to any more of them. No sooner than I made that promise, a japanese tourist loved her hat so much she made Noelle pose for her, first alone, then with a stuffed animal, then she got her husband to get one of her and Noelle, all the while struggling to figure out her camera. Noelle just grinned patiently.

Prague is really special on a cold and foggy evening, with the castle and countless lighted spires sticking up into the clouds. Luckily for the kids, the cold drove us back to the apartment or we would have wandered non-stop until the plane left.




I think that we're all ready to go home after such a long trip. We enjoyed sharing our adventures with our friends and family and we hope that you enjoyed reading about them as well. We will post a follow-up when we get back into the U.S.A. because if past experience is a guide, I'm sure we'll have some missteps getting home!