Prague: The City of Spires

The (early) morning after seeing Keukenhoff, we got in our new rental car, and drove to the Frankfurt Airport to pick up my 81-year old Grandma Emma. We roped her into coming on this trip with the promise that we'd end up in Germany with her German cousins (after 9 days of traveling). We searched through a few different terminals until we finally found her, patiently waiting. Life without cellphones can be a lot more complicated!

Then it was back in the car and on to Prague, where we were supposed to hook up with my Mom, Aunt Nancy, and cousin Brooke.

This is me, very happy that I didn't lose either my Grandma or Mom somewhere in Central Europe

We found everyone and our hotels (life without a GPS must have been REALLY complicated), and got started seeing Prague.
Prague is a cool mixture of old and new. It is one of the few important medieval cities (it was the capital of the Holy Roman Empire for awhile) that wasn't heavily bombed during WW2. So Prague still has a lot of cool, really old stuff...

The old Charles bridge, started in 1357 on the 9th day of the 7th month at 5:31 am...because palindromes (1-3-5-7-9-7-5-3-1) were supposed to be lucky. And it seems to have worked!

...Mixed in with some new, really cool stuff.

The dancing 'Fred and Ginger' building

Before our 3 days in Prague were up, we (including Grandma) walked all over the city, ate some really good Czech food (thanks, Mom!), and made some lasting memories (like trying to pick up poor Jacqueline after her night-train from Amsterdam...).

Next, we just had to make it to Vienna and find Erik, and our party would be complete!

We had a great TIME in Prague...yuck yuck.