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Thursday, June 21st
Philadelphia to Prague
(via Newark and Paris!)

We're off!

Loading the bus

Our bus to the airport

Reading in the airport

Passing time in the Newark airport
with sketchbooks and the ever-challenging Rubik's cube

Friday, June 22nd
Prague

Bus in Prague

We've finally landed in the Czech Republic, via Paris,
and we're on our bus for a little sightseeing in Prague.

Chaps on the bus

Happy chaperones!

First stop is Prague Castle, high above the city.

Changing of the guard

The official changing of the guard

Prague Castle

St. Vitus Cathedral within the castle grounds

 

Looking up at the castle

Looking up at the Cathedral facade

Fountain

The fountain in the courtyard of the Castle

Descending from the heights of Prague Castle

Back to settle in at our hotel—very ready for dinner and bed!

Saturday, June 23rd
Prague

Charles Bridge

The historic Charles Bridge in the distance

A (small) group pose outside Prague Castle

gate

Girls pointing out some of the intriguing illustrations of medieval life
wrought in iron on the castle gates

Hugs in the courtyard

Cupola

The Royal Gardens

Singing under the cupola—
many people gathered to listen and take pictures

Sharell touching statue

Touching the statue of St. John the Confessor (with the left hand!) for good luck

Lunch in a frescoed bistro

Gelati group

An afternoon of shopping, including a break for gelati in the square

Dinner was a feast with delicious Czech dumplings

Scarf twins

Showing off some of the day's very glamorous purchases

The puppet show performance of Don Giovanni

Three "marionettes" showing off the performance poster

Sculpture of Don Giovanni
(kinda creepy)
outside the opera house
where Mozart's opera was first performed in the late eighteenth century



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