Odom Stuff: 02/2006

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Prague, Czech Republic

This was my first trip into the former eastern bloc. Lisa had been to Poland but said this was much different. We had a good time. Food and lodging were cheap compared to other european cities.

Lisa and a "Turdlink"

There were these local pastries that were called (unpronounceable). The (unpronouncable)s were awesome.

Prague Manhole Cover

An addition in my "Manhole covers of the world" series.

Gipsy Musicians

Lisa and the Gipsy Musicians. The guy on the left's grandfather played the symbols for Richard Nixon.

Gipsy Music!

In most European languages, Gipsy means "run the other way". But in Prague, it means "come in, listen to music, have coffee and buy a CD."

is that...Paris?

This hill was so hight that we could see Paris!"

Lisa and I figured out how to set the timer feature on our camera. This allows us to have pictures of ourselves without enlarging our terror threat profile. I wish our camera had a "keep the wind from blowing the camera into the local river" feature.

Rabbit Skin Hat

I have a theory on why the east lost the cold war. Any country boy is going to know how to shoot a rabbit, so a rabbit skin hat is probably no the thing to wear crawling on the field of battle.

"Grab your horn!"

How would you like to sign up for the military to serve God and country and be handed a horn? "The Americans are overrunning the border! Quick, grab your horn and prepare to defend!"

Lisa and Comrad

Lisa is not mocking this guy. He was way easier to get to smile too.

No. 20

This is a door on the golden row, also known as "hit your head on the door facing" row.

Golden Streams by I.P. Freely

We went to a place called the "Golden Lane", not for the lack of public restrooms, but because, back in the day, they said you could get gold out of anything golden. These people tried to get gold out of straw, wheat, pee, etc. When they couldn't do it, they were killed.

2-Dimensional Bull Head

This is a little creepy if you are having beef. Good thing we had the chicken, as a chicken with a ring in its beak is not as ominous.

Gothic Church

After walking up a big hill, you get to a little town which has a bunch or restaurants, a toy museum, and a giant church. On the other side of the church, there were a lot of military. Not the "kill you" military, but the "dressed up" military.

Monk Dude

Monk dude outside of a church.

St. Charles Bridge

Lisa and I on St. Charles bridge, the oldest and longest midieval bridge in Europe, according to statistics I just made up. You can also trust foreigners to take your picture and not run away with your camera, most of the time.

River Shoreline

The cold war is not over here, as it was still pretty nippy. In fact, our new term for being really cold is "Pragueish", as in, "Look, I'm so pragueish my lips are blue".

Czech Opera

We went to the opera our last night there. After a hearty dinner of pig neck, we headed over to the opera house. We saw a whole opera (well, half) for 7 bucks. We could have had 7 bean burritos for that much. Anyway, it was pretty good for not understanding anything. There were about 4 sentences in French, which Lisa understood, but that was all.