Science park

This is R!

Sunday we had a relaxing morning, which means sleeping in. It was Mama and Daddy's 18th anniversary! Everyone slept in and when we did wake up, Daddy ran to the market to get us some nice fruit for breakfast - L's himbeeren. After a nice brunch Daddy took us to this cool science park Mama found called Lem Science Garden.

Krakow

Sometimes I worry that the blog seems a little braggy, when really it's just meant to be a sort of diary for us and a newsletter for our family. I think I've said it before, but I'll just mention it again: I leave out lots of dumb stuff: like me falling off the ebike or us arriving in Krakow without an exact address for the apartment and having to get help from the police station across the street. Stuff like that, though not so bad, does happen. It's not all chocolates and gondolas.

Anyway, the trip from Warsaw to Krakow was super easy, and the police only took about twenty minutes to find our apartment, contact the rep who was supposed to let us in, and get him on the scene. It was impressive and we had to wonder what leftover cold war tactics they might have used. It's a great apartment and we are settled in for the next few days.

On Saturday we wanted to just walk around and explore Old Town. First we went to a market, though, because I love seeing the different markets! This market had a few things that made it special:

Warsaw

We had planned to go from Prague to Krakow on an overnight train, and had reservations for an apartment there the next day. However, when E went to Zurich last week to reserve our couchettes he was told that we would have to change trains at 3 a.m. So we had to change the plan quickly - and find a way to Krakow in time for the apartment which wouldn't have us sitting on the train all day. The only option was Warsaw. We took an overnight train there instead, spent most of Friday looking around, and took a three hour long train from there to Krakow in the evening. Here we are on the way to Warsaw.
This train had higher ceilings than the first, which was more comfortable. But the bunks wouldn't fold up in the morning.

I'd never really wanted to go to Warsaw since I figured it had all been destroyed in the war, but I liked it very much and am glad we went.

They've done a good job of making the repaired and rebuilt buildings look old.

Last day in Prague

We began our last day in Prague with brunch at Cafe Louvre, where Einstein liked to eat. It was very pretty. L had a Czech specialty which is supposed to be popular with kids - sweetened potato dumplings which looked like white asparagus and were blanketed with poppy seeds. E had some pork which tasted a little like our homemade Christmas sausage.

Really really awesome bike tour

This is S writing again!

The first thing we did on Wednesday was go up to the castle. We saw suits of armor, including a tiny one that looked like T could fit into. We went in the cathedral and saw some nice stained glass. One of the stained glass windows was made by an artist named Mucha. We recognized that it was by him right away because earlier in the week we went to an art museum that was completely his art. One of the pictures there was of a woman in a dead tree and a schoolgirl looking accusingly at her audience. It was very creepy. The description said the girl was accusing people of not buying her school supplies. On the stained glass window it looked like the same girl looking accusingly at the audience again. He has a signature way of drawing little girls. We also saw a smaller church there that was older.

The cathedral had lots of side chapels in different styles

The old church and the cathedral