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

Road trip to Slovenia (with some other stops on the way..)

At the end of July, Mike and I and our friend, Mike, or Grif, (last name Griffin,) as I like to call him because this is confusing, went on a road trip to Lake Bled, Slovenia.  We would normally be going with his wife as well, however she was in Canada in July.  Her name is Jaqueline.  Jax for short.  So we created Flat Jax.  She joined us on this trip too.  It would have been more fun with the real Jax, but Flat Jax was a pretty good traveler..

We met up with him in a small town in the Czech Republic, saw a big castle there and then left the next morning for Slovenia.  We drove through the Alps, stopped in Villach, Austria, (which is known for their fortress on the hill, and apparently their monkeys**,) and then made it to Lake Bled.  We were only there for 2 nights, but we managed to pack in a tour through the Postojna Caves, drive to small coastal towns in Slovenian and Croatia, see Ljubljana, and still row a canoe to the cathedral in the middle of  Lake Bled.  Phew.

All the places were just gorgeous, but I think I would like to go back to Ljubljana at some point.  We only spent a couple hours there in the evening, and it just seemed like it had so much more to offer.  Maybe soon...

And a massive thank you to Grif, who drove the entire time and was a great trip planner!  Thank you friend!  We had so much fun!

Loves. Leah

**We stopped at the tourist info centre in Villach and the boys went in to ask about the fortress.

Boys: "So, besides the fortress, is there anything else to see in town?"

Tourist Centre Personnel: (emphatically) "Do you want to see our monkeys?"

Boys: "Ummmm....."

Too funny!!

25-27.07.10 Slovenia, Croatia and Austria with Grif and Flat Jax

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

summertime with the Boldts - Paris

So I don't think I mentioned it before, but it was EXTREMELY hot this summer.  Forty degrees hot.  Every city we went to.  Including Prague.  yikes.  So please excuse all the sweaty summer photos I will be posting.

After a few days in Prague, we jetted off to Paris for a few nights.  Yeah!  I LOVE Paris.  I had been once before, when I was in Grade 9, and it was with our school band and all I remember is going to the Gap and falling asleep during Les Misérables.  How sad.  Needless to say, I consider this my "first" time in Paris.  It was just beautiful and cultured and there were people riding their bicycles everywhere and the food was delicious and the wine was gorgeous.  I could just go on and on...


Loves. Leah

06-10.07.10 summer with the boldts - paris

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

how inspiring is this??

If you live in Vancouver, go visit my sister at the Eastside Culture Crawl!!

I really hope this movie comes to Prague...

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..