We arrived in Prague slightly ahead of schedule- our flights went smoothly, and none of our luggage was lost. The 10-hr layover in Dublin was a killer though!
We met Chris in the Dublin airport for coffee prior to his flight back to Prague, and several of the Czech Inn staff were on our flight to Prague later in the day and were very helpful with our luggage.
Our problem right now is that we cannot get into our computers - who knew that wireless cards are restricted to regions, and of course ours is set for the US??? Mike- if you know how to hack a change to the cards, let us know!!
Anyway, we do have pictures from our last days in the States and we will do a whole bunch of posts as soon as we are able!
We rang in the New Year last night by attending a party hosted by friends of Susan and Rob.
It was a bash based on a bowling theme, and food and drink items were all to begin with the letter "b".
We figured all alcoholic drinks could be classified as booze, so everything from wine to whiskey sours fell into that category. Susan suggested that Tom use his new bartending skills to produce brandy alexanders, which were a hit!
In the food category we had buffalo chicken dip, Sue's shrimp served on a blue plate ( blue plate special), barbequed shrimp, blueberry pork, burgers, baba ganoush, blue cheese bites, brownies, and lots,lots more!
These little penguins were created using black olives!
Our talented hostess Kim shows off her bowling shirt.
Bowling pin name tags....more on that later
We were organized into bowling teams, each team captained by a techno-savvy young person.
The captains were awesome, and actually managed to get their teams of adults to compete in a Wii bowling tournament. The kids had the edge of having bowled with the Wii several times before, but the adults managed to post some high scores as well, and it was extemely fun way to spend the evening.
Tom & I had never seen the Wii in use before, and we decided we want one!
The kids helped with the countdown as well.....
The evening ended with a spirited gift exchange with a twist - as gifts were opened, the rules dictated that you could take an unopened gift from the pile or steal one from someone else. There was a sports-themed throw that proved to be quite popular and changed hands many times throughout this activity!
Many thanks to all the wonderful people we met last night for inviting us to join in the fun. You are all welcome in Prague anytime!
Many, many years ago, Tom had the opportunity to live for a time in NYC. Cyndy spent one of her college semesters in Europe. Each has always wanted to be able to relive those exciting youthful experiences- and now we can! Join us as we experience big city life in a beautiful European city -Prague, CZ.
