Saturday, May 28th we headed out as a family to Prague. I had been to Prague with my sister Paige and Hyrum had been with his brother Jason but we had never taken a family trip out there. Prague is a great little day trip for us, it's only about 2 1/2 hours away. The weather was nice and sunny and we all had a great time.
Prague is one of the best cities with kids, it seems like every place we walked we found a fun playground
We rode a funicular up the hill outside the main city to what we called the "mini Eiffel tower"
I forgot to count the steps it took to get all the way to the top of the tower but I know it was a lot. Emerson and Townsend hiked up the whole way with me while Daddy and Julian waited below.
Townsend looking out the windows at the top of the tower. It was a great place to go and see all of Prague at one time.
Right next to the tower is a building that has fun house mirrors as well as a maze of mirrors. Needless to say, the boys loved this!
We stopped at the miniature art museum. The artwork was all so tiny you had to look through a microscope to see it. There was a flea with real metal horseshoes and a human hair with a verse from the Bible written on it.
We walked, and walked, and walked, and walked around Prague.
Here were are on the Charles Bridge. The boys are rubbing the dog on this sculpture relief, it's supposed to bring good luck.
The "band on the bridge" was lots of fun to listen to. They played some great blue grass and dixie land music. The boys favorite instrument was the wash board.
When Hyrum went to Prague with his brother they found the best gelato place so I was really excited to try it out. I was not disappointed:)
We were lucky to be in Prague on a day they were having a music festival. Here are some dancers doing traditional Czech festival dancing. We had a great time and I'm sure we'll back to visit this fun city.
Sunday, May 29th. After church we went and hiked around near the "water wheel." We have been on this same trail lots of times but it's close to home and it's lots of fun.
Our good little hikers.
Julian and Daddy, what a beautiful day for a hike.
Relaxing after the hike.
Monday, May 30th. We were trying all weekend to decide where to go for Memorial Day. We thought about going to Legoland, which is outside of Munich, but we decided that we should just keep it simple and find somewhere close by that was fun. So, we were off to Bayreuth for the day. Our friends, the Platts, came along as well as Bill and Kathleen Goodbaudy, who have been staying with us the last few weeks. We all had a great time and once again we were blessed with good weather.
Hyrum let the boys play with his ipod on the train ride out to Bayreuth.
There is a gazebo in the Hof garden in Bayreuth. For some reason the boys decided it was the perfect location for waltzing...pretty cute to see those kids all dancing together.
Feeding the ducks in Bayreuth.
The little boys playing together...
...and the big boys playing together. It's so great to have a friend that has kids about my boys age, it's so fun to watch them all have fun together.
On our way back to the train station we found this fountain. It was such a hot day we decided to let the boys enjoy the cool water. We told them they had to strip down to their undies but they weren't going for that so we ended up purchasing new shorts for the boys so they would have something dry to wear on the train ride home.
They were like little lizards. When they got too cold in the water they would find a nice warm piece of concrete to lay on for a while.
We hope you all had a fabulous Memorial Day weekend and we hope you could spend time with your families and those you love.
this weekend looks so fun! i love the dinner shot at the end. makes me miss visiting you guys and eating yummy food.
ReplyDeletei'm so excited to see you in just a couple weeks, i feel like it's been ages since we've talked!
I cannot believe what great hikers they are! It's not often you can get kids to walk and walk and walk!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Hyrum on making Major! Love the shots of the boys. I miss you guys! Say Hi to the Platts and good luck on the impending deployment. Hope you have a great time in the states!
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