Pictures of our Trip

Well, I was told that our blog would be boring without pictures, so I will try to get a few up. They are not really in an order, sorry. I am also not so familiar with working with the pictures, so sorry about the long display and not having the descriptions more like captions.

The top one is a palace called Cervena Lhota, which literally means "Red House;" fitting, don't you think? This was Pret's favorite place.

The next one down is the coolest "new" castle (Hluboka, outside of Ceske Budejovice) we saw--unfortunately is was only from the outside, but it was amazing!

Under that is the view of Prague Castle from the Charles Bridge. Thanks to Tanya for her photography skills in capturing this beautiful picture (I forgot my camera at the Johnson's the day we went out in Prague... :-( )

Next, we have a picture of where the Berlin Wall ran through Berlin. It was pretty impressive to see this, which is their "memorial" to the wall. We followed the path and also visited "Checkpoint Charlie," the boarder checkplace between American-occupied Berlin and the Soviet-occupied portion. A little further down we also saw one of the the few remaining portions of the wall-pretty powerful!!

Below that, Pret and I posed for a picture below the Hrad (Castle) Konopiste. This was one of the places where Archduke Franz Ferdinand lived and had his huge display of hunting trophies. There was a huge lake that it looked over and we thought it was very picturesque (is that spelled right?)

Finally, this is Jeff and Tanya (our friends and traveling partners) with us and Pret's "Czech Grandma," Babicka Jelinkova. We stayed with her for a couple days and she fed us until we were sick and introduced us to apple tea that is amazing!

Anyway, that is just a sample of the 2500 pictures and short video clips we have. If anyone is interested in more, just let us know. Sorry about the descriptions not being "captioned"--I am still learning how to do all this blogging stuff...