Friday, May 23, 2008

Top Secret Greenpeace Demonstration

The girls requested a stay at home day yesterday, and had to re-request it about thirty times with Caleb home and itching to go out with them. In the end, they lost. We dragged them out at nine at night to the Charles Bridge to see a top secret Green Peace demonstration in which people took out a boat to project images on to river side buildings. The images turned out to be mostly English words with an anti-nuke message addressing the United Nations. The demonstration was top secret in order to avoid a police presence but I think they avoided a presence all together because there were very few people watching from the bridge. It wasn't exactly spectacular or eye catching unless you already happened to be looking off that particular side of the bridge. Maybe they did the other side after we left? There were quite a few tourists on the bridge still at that time, but most of them were busy viewing the singing wine glasses put on by the one guy still workin' the bridge at that hour. You may wonder how we would know about a "top secret" peace demonstration in Prague having lived here for about a month. Our landlords are well connected. He's a journalist. She's a medical doctor. So he's very well informed as part of the press committee covering the demonstration. Good Greenpeace didn't keep it top secret from the press.

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