Gypsies

Caleb spoke to his grandmother yesterday and she said her father was Roma so I guess we really are Gypsies, well, most of us, and my geneology isn't completely clear so who knows? There's a week long Roma festival happening in Prague in the end of May. We will definitely go to see the traditional dress day and hopefully catch some music. We went to an art museum yesterday complete with many gory paintings of saints being murdered in various ways. We caught a lot of free day museums this past week, it being the first week of the month. That's really the way to go with children because if it's really not working out, you don't feel so bad about leaving after a short time, and not seeing every painting or every floor even. Caleb found the perfect Cappucino today at 'Shakespeare and Sons,' an English used book store / cafe / bar not too far away. The only draw backs being the price of books is higher than the new ones in the 'New Town'-"Palace of books" -city almost center, and they don't open till ten A.M. which isn't prime coffee time for Caleb, but will have to do. The cafe is a really nice place though- reminds me of 'The Pub' in Albany, CA. Sofie's stroller broke down a few times and we are once again in search of a bolt for it. Caleb finally admits that we really can't survive the next month without it. See Sofie's blog- post about Walking. Exploring today was limited due to need for stroller reparations. We did go swimming and feel like we should do that everyday it was so much fun. Dogs around here don't usually wear leashes and are very well behaved and cute. They do all wear muzzles when traveling on the metro or the trams. Prague reminds me of what I expected from Paris, the romantic view you get from movies and books with the dogs running free and the people being tolerant but judgmental, or at least opinionated. One big difference between here and France is that they pick up the exkrementy here after their dogs like in the U.S. That's just another example of the just add a "y" language learning technique that works around here for so many words, it never fails to amuse me. We still do miss France. Anja has big plans to live in Cluny again in her not too distant future. Sofie on the other hand is going to buy a house in Florida next to grandma Janet. We are looking for a place to rent in Sebastopol in September if anyone know of anything, with or without the kids.