One day closer to death...

Sunday Day 2

Matt and I slept till noon, and spent the day wandering around Prague taking pictures. Early afternoon we went to the Mozart Museum located on the grounds where Mozart lived while in Prague.  They have the actual harpshichord that Mozart played.   I was able to remove it and ship it home, soon to take its' place next to the Rizzuto mat.

Later that afternoon we dined at a fine Czech restaurant called TGI Fridays.  A fantastic little place that not many Americans are familiar with :)   I did manage to have an original Budweiser, called Budvar.  Matt had fettucini, and I had uruguayan beef.  Yes, it was that nasty.

In the evening Matt and I went to see the Prague Symphony play Mozart's Requiem at a beautiful place called the Municipal House. Requiem is a piece of music written for a funeral.  It was very good - even my pedestrian brain enjoyed it.  It's the last thing Mozart wrote before his death, completing only about 2/3 of it.  If you can remember the scene in Amadeus, he was writing it in bed when he died.

After the show Matt and I went to a casino, I wanted to play some blackjack, and Matt wanted to play some slots.  We went but the machines were all in Czech and I couldn't figure out how to use them.  We'll try again in Vienna.

Monday Day 3

Boring day for both of us since I actually had to work.  The reason I'm here is to attend a meeting of a news organization called IPTC.  For photo buffs it may sound familiar, as one of the things IPTC maintains is the standards that govern photo metadata used by all camera manufacturers.  Eric probably has heard of this.

After the meeting Matt and I walked across Prague's famous Charles Bridge  (Matt took that pic) into Lesser Town, and ate at an Irish pub called J.J. Murphy's.   MATT HAD HIS FIRST BEER - yes you read that correctly.   He hated it, but so did I when I first tasted beer, and look what's happened to me.  Somehow I think I don't need to worry about Matt.

There seems to be no drinking age here, or limit on anything else for that matter.  Matt could drink, gamble, and get a lap dance.  No one would look twice.  Somehow European kids manage to survive the lack of government regulation.

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