meat meal and crzy babies

A few weeks ago in Prague after a very strict vegetarian diet I relapsed with this Czech cuisine taking the nightly meal to whole new level.

-That there plate includes four slices of pork roast, four slices of ham, one sausage, a scoopful of the most lovely sauerkraut, hairy dumplings, potato dumplings, bread dumplings, and underneath it all a potato pancake the size of the plate. This is not to mention, of course, the pepper garnish and the beer cheaper then water and of quality worth drinking unlike Hungarian beer.

It was a shared plate and I am still alive

In other weird accounts of my trip to here are two weird figurines of babies on bugs:

Me Montage...

Prague is a very pretty city full of museums and beautiful buildings and what not. I mean look at this pretty picture in black and white - Classy!

-Arty

Don't let that fool you though - I found the most childish exhibit and spent my hard earned money to play with junk... It. Was. Awesome.

-Pop-bottle vines! They were all filled with other junk.

-Like Barbie heads...

- The quiet chair... so we found out later. It wasn't anything spectacular... but look - you could write on the walls!

-My hands are huge! That mirror is just like real life.

-This bike is just a really big whistle.

-Incredibly heavy blocks that were next to impossible to stack... Get out of my way kids.

-My friends eyes... just really magnified and weird like.

-A marble game we weren't able to play because of all the little brats running around like this was some sort of interactive exhibition meant for children.

-Encourage children to understand science... or encourage adults to make scary poses and reenact ipod commercials.

-The colouring section. We thought we could make something WAY prettier... We couldn't.

-Some kids leave the strangest warnings...

-This is a musical instrument. You can't tell because I didn't take pictures of the keyboard and xylophone parts. It was the most beautiful thing and it moved and was pretty and blah blah blah... The pictures can not do it justice.

Tootling Around Europe - Busy, Busy

Oh hey there, hi there!

After my epic month of posting mindless dribble I took some time off for myself. There was laundry to do, left-over Christmas cookies to eat, road trips to go on, meetings to attend.

You can notice from my fancy-smancy new Flickr album that I travelled through the Hungarian country-side a few weeks ago. I won’t go into the Picasa vs. Flickr debate here but if you would like to have a little discussion about how terrible Picasa is I am all ears.

We drove towards Austria and found “Hungary’s Versailles” – I think the two of us were about 50% of the tourists they had there that week. It was pretty impressive but unfortunately under construction. It hosts a mirror that if you look into it you will become more beautiful. It worked.

We then went to a small town that was basically closed for the winter but, do not fear, the wineries were still open as was a really cute cake shop. We were content. The second day we accidently drove into Austria for about 15 minutes and then visited another tiny village. The one thing I learned was small towns in Europe are prettier than small town in Canada. Chalk one up for Europe.

I am trying to make this sound more interesting but I have spent the past two days writing minutes. It is difficult not telling you what decisions were made and report on database building. My mind has turned into carrots.

I have also travelled to and from the immigration office three times and am still without a real visa. This wasn’t nearly as exciting as the countryside.

Finally, I was in Prague for ten days working with fabulous people, and touring around in snowstorms. More on this later when I figure out how to make things sound funny…

I will leave you with these though:

-This is a pretty garden

-This is a scary face

-This is a small town church

-This is a bit of Egypt in Hungary

-This is me, a Lonely Planet, and two glasses of wine