Mom & Dad's second visit

My parents came out to visit for a couple weeks at the end of October.  During this time we hung out in Prague a bit..

prague with mom & dad

then during my weekdays off, the 3 of us went to Berlin..

17-18.10.10 Berlin with Mom & Dad

and our school had mid term break, so we roadtripped to Italy, via Germany and Austria.

22-23.10.10 Füssen

23-25.10.10 Florence

25-27.10.10 Cinque Terre

27-28.10.10 Venice

27.10.10 Ferrari museum

28-30.10.10 - Salzburg

Oh yah!  And then we stopped in Český Krumlov for dinner at one of our favourite restaurants.

30.10.10 - Český Krumlov

All the places we visited were just gorgeous, but I think my favourite place this trip was Venice.  Such a different and beautiful city with so much character!  But really just loved it all!  

Thanks for coming out to see us, Mom and Dad!

Loves.  Leah

summertime with the Boldts - Berlin

Aaand Berlin.  I've said it before but we love Berlin.  We got a chance to take the Boldt family there and celebrate my 30th birthday too!  (Really?!  30?  Looks so much older in writing...)  I got to eat the first sushi we've had since we've moved to Prague, (living in a landlocked country is not so convincing for good sushi..), we went to see the Blue Man Group, did some shopping, bicycling...  It was fantastic!

We had such a great time with the family and it was really cool to have all of them here at the same time!  Thanks so much for coming to visit!!

Loves. Leah

13-17.07.10 summer with the boldts - berlin

Mom & Dad

Before we had made the decision to come to Prague for 2 years, my parents had already booked and planned a trip to Africa. Sooo... what else can you do but change your flights and come to Prague for a bit too!!

They were here for a week and we took them all over Prague and did a road trip to Rothenburg, Germany for a day. We had a great time with them, checking out the little walled city of Rothenburg, looking through antique shops, showing off Prague and hearing all about their trip to Africa, over a cup of tea. Every night we went through a handful of their African photos.  Took us the entire week to get through all of them, but looking at photos of orphaned elephants is *haaardly* tiresome!

It was a fantastic and relaxing time!  Too short, but very, very sweet.

Loves. Leah

13-19.02.10 Mom & Dad's visit

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Shereen and Chris

Our dear friends, Shereen and Chris came to visit us at the beginning of February. She was on her way to India, for a school practicum and Chris was able to take off some time at work and they were here! We got to spend a solid week and a half with them. In Berlin and Prague. They took a week off from us in the middle to go to Italy, because my parents came for a week over that time too. It was great to see them and catch up and just be together. We had some great experiences over that time, which included seeing a band that we love, finding delicious little restaurants, and shopping in the coolest market in Berlin. And mostly I cherish the time we talked and played games and just did the stupid things that we always did at home together. Miss you guys!

Loves. Leah

10-27.02.10 Chris & Shereen's visit

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berlin, germany

grrr... i have written 2 different posts for this trip and blogger has deleted both of them!!  tumblr, here i come!
anyhoo...  i'll give you the short version of this trip so i can post it.  mike had to go to berlin for a long weekend for IB training for work.  so riverside being the kind school it is, let me go with!  yah!  it was a 4 hour train ride there, that was beautiful.  i love the train! our friends ange and brooke joined us for a couple days too and we did a walking tour of berlin, where we saw brandenburg gate, the memorial to the murdered jews of europe, the wall, the parking lot which is now known as "the parking lot that is over the bunker where hitler committed suicide", checkpoint charlie, and did a bit of shopping and ate at some great restaurants.  we packed a lot into a little bit of time and it was amazing!  we love berlin.  the wall itself was just mind blowing to see.  to see this and know that this happened in our time.  remembering the little bits and pieces about the "berlin wall coming down" from when i was nine, that are still floating in my brain.  it was really amazing.  our guide for the walking tour was fantastic too.  giving us all the historic details that i more than likely ignored in high school history class.  there were a couple parts of the wall that we saw.  there is the part that is still broken down and then there is east side gallery, which is all painted up by different artists.
so that is the quick version of this trip.  it was a quick trip anyway, so i guess its appropriate for a quickie post. 

24-28.09.09 Berlin