Last day - Prague

On the last day we decided that Mom had to see the cathedral and the palace before she left Prague. So after we packed up from the hotel we headed back into Prague.  Prague is actually called the Mother of cities (Rome is called the father).

Mom with her grandsons with the bridge and castle behind them.

The crew in front of the famous Charles bridge.  You can see it looked a little cold to start with, but man it ended up really, really hot!

A view of the palace and cathedral - it was a little hazy out.

Grandma and AJ on the other side of Charles Bridge.

As we were heading up towards the castle the boys saw a ghost museum.  It is about all the ghosts that they have only in Prague.  Let me tell you there are a lot of them!!!  This one is about a secret society who left their bodies at home and meet at another house with just their souls, so the story goes.  There was a house fire and the wife couldn't wake up the husband so she wanted him out of the secret society.  She went to the meeting place and started cutting out his picture, she slipped and cut the neck in the picture and the picture started dripping blood.  When she got home her husband's head was cut off and she has haunted the house ever since.

Michael checking out some of the chemist area.  When he put his hand on a plate it made the pink and blue liquid bubble.

They had some puppets here where they could cut of three people's heads.  It was an interesting museum to say the least.  There were many ghosts stories about many different people.  We had a map to try and find all the ghosts in the museum and there was quite a bit of hands on to it as well.  There was even a place where you could put on a puppet show.

After that we headed up towards the castle again.  It was getting hot and the boys were tired, but I knew we could make it!!!

At the top of the hill, with the city of Prague behind us.

It is a beautiful city even on a hazy day!

There was a big crowd of people around the gates, so we decided to go over and check it out.

The gate with their two guardians.  A little brutal looking, but still pretty awesome!

We found out what all the people were looking at, it was the changing of the guards.  We arrived just in time!

Not only was it the changing of the guards, they also had a live band playing up in one of the buildings!!  It sounded really cool!!!

So we arrived at the castle complex, which is in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest castle in the world.  It occupies an area of almost 70,000 square meters.  It is HUGE!!  This is the cathedral that is in the middle of it.  I wanted to take Mom inside, but unfortunately it didn't open until 1 pm and it was only noon.  So instead we walked around the outside to show her the size.

Mom in front of the cathedral.  You can see the gold plating above her.

Here is a closer picture of the gold part, so intricate.

As Mom and I were walking around, we saw a few more soldiers coming around, maybe changing places somewhere else.

This is the front of the cathedral, you can see it's massive size!

While Mom and I were walking around, this is where the boys stayed with David.  They were tired and hot and had seen it before.  I think all three were happy to be sitting down for a little bit.

The boys with the guard.  One interesting thing, when they were doing the changing of the guards, they couldn't wear sunglasses while marching.  When they got to the spot they have to stand, another guard actually had to put on the sunglasses.  Good thing they didn't poke an eye out. ;-)

On the way back to the car Michael say this and just had to have his picture taken.  He is so awesome!!!  :-)

I have to say I was glad we were heading out of Prague - this is a picture heading back across the Charles Bridge and you can see how packed it is now.  It was getting crazy around there.   After that we jumped in the car and headed back to Germany.  It was a bit of a drive, but we made it safe and sound and everybody had a wonderful time!!!