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

September roundup

Time to do a photo catch up...  This was our September.

Unfortunately, they did not get to spend a lot of time here, but Matthew and Brandy came to visit!

08-12.09.10 Brandy & Matthew's visit

Then Mike and I went to Okoř for the weekend to celebrate our 3rd anniversary.

18-19.09.10 Anniversary weekend in Okoř

Yippee!

We fondly called it Pragurkreece - Prague

Well, if any of you know Rachel or followed my links from before, you would have already seen some photos and read about our trip and laughed out loud, as Raych is a hilarious and fantastic user of the English language.  I... am not so good at the English part, however I do have a lot more photos.  So please check out her blog here, for pre-Gurkey fun.  And here for post Gurkey fun. And then her facebook album here.  (Don't really know if the fb one will work, but check it out.)  Thanks for being a great blogger, Raych!!

Loves. Leah

30,31.07 & 15-18.08.10 Prague with Joel and Rachel

summertime with the Boldts - Prague

The Boldts came to visit us this summer for 3 weeks-ish.  We stayed in Prague for a bit, then off to Paris and Berlin.  This first set of photos is the Prague portion.  We took them around to see all the regular things (haha!  I say "regular" as if we do this everyday.  Well...  we kinda live here.  So yes.  We do.), and also we had never been to the Jewish Quarter or the zoo yet.  So we hit those places up too.  (Little did we know that we would end up going to the zoo THREE times this summer.  But it IS very cool.)  Here you go.  Prague with the Boldts.  Part One.

Loves. Leah

(click on photo below for web album..)

02-05.07.10 summer with the boldts - praha

Canada Day

We started the day off right having breakfast with fellow Canadians..

Then wandered around the river looking at odd things.

Then paddle boating with Australians.

(Mike is taking me on the swan paddle boat for my birthday next year!!)

 (Decent views from the river.)

 Then to Kampa Park for some big baby fun and frisbeeing.

And a world cup game at the beer gardens.  

Loves.  Leah

the June roundup

 June started off with our school's Summer Fayre.  Mike worked the bar for the morning..

Then we headed to the Grad students dinner party on top of a really high hotel.

Said good bye to some of our friends that were moving back to the states.

Saw an amazing Firebird.  (I didnt want to stand too close in case I started to grow a mullet.)

And then we took the metro home..  

the May roundup

I looked up the definition of "roundup" quickly before I titled this blog post.  This is what I found.

1.

a. The herding together of cattle for inspection, branding, or shipping.

b. The cattle so herded.

c. The workers and horses employed in such herding.

2. A gathering up, as of people under suspicion by the police.

3. A summary: a news roundup.

Interesting, no?  I would use this word so much more often if I was a cattle farmer, apparently.

May.  It was a busy month.  We started by moving.  Ugh.  But yeah!!  We moved a 1930's apartment a bit closer to town, but still close to school.  And with lots more character!  (Much to Mike's dismay at first...)  We had some of our lovely friends help us move up to the fourth floor of our new building.  Without a lift.  They were incredibly kind about it!  This is what they had to look forward to when they were done though.

And this is what our place looked like for the next couple days.  Err..  I mean weeks.

Then we went to the Electronic Beats festival to see Hot Chip!!  We got there incredibly early.  Like 830pm.  Apparently Hot Chip wasn't going to be on until 1230am.  Haha!  Are we that old??  So we got some girlie drinks.

(Yes, Mike's "mojito" is the extra fruity one!)

Then saw this Vanilla Ice wannabe perform in all his white suit loveliness!

Then after a few more performances, HOT CHIP CAME ON STAGE!!!

They were fabulous and we danced all night!  

Then we went to explore Vyšehrad on our long weekend.

And the baby tower!

Which happens to have a Jewish cemetery close to it.

Then we went to see an outdoor play of Romeo and Juliet that our friend from school was in.

And then there was a party outside our building.  

With a pig on a spit,

and, yes, homemade chips!

And that was May.