Prague Day 3

8-17-2009

Rose and I woke Tess up singing "Happy Birthday" and then the three of us bought strawberries for breakfast and visited an internet cafe to get ourselves organized. Rose needed to buy a train ticket so she headed to the train station and Tess and I went to see an exhibit on the Terra Cotta army. This exhibit was not sufficiently air conditioned, but it did provide a great picture into what the actual Terra Cotta army would look like.

Then Tess and I found a store and did some shopping. I was able to find a thick pair of tights (something I'd been looking for in the US) which will be great in Moscow. Tess and I met back up with Rose and the three of us headed to the Jewish quarter to see some museums. We started by seeing a cemetary with over 12,000 headstones and over 30,000 bodies. In some places the bodies were layered 12 deep. The cemetary was attached to the Pinkas Synagouge which housed an exhibit of children's drawings. The drawings came from an art class conducted at concentration camps during the Holocaust and the pictures we saw are an many cases the only piece of information that shows us these children existed.

On leaving the museum we cleverly sold our 24 hour passes to another American couple and managed to draw the attention of the guards, but we somehow avoided any confrontation or trouble. Then we decided to celebrate Tess's birthday by renting paddle boats and spending some quality time in the sun and on the water. We boated for an hour and headed to Matrea, a vegetarian restaurant. The food was not as great as the night before, but was still delicious and we enjoyed two bottles of wine as we shared affirmations of each other for Tess's birthday and Rose led us all in her familys' traditional BQs (birthday questions).

After returning to Gautier's, we packed up for our early trip the next morning and hit the hay.