On Saturday I found a place to go cherry picking. The Czech's have a fruit initiative that I believe was started in Germany to help feed the community. So they've gone and planted fruit trees and people maintain them and plant new ones when needed, then the public are allowed to come harvest the fruit for free. There was a little stand set up renting ladders and baskets for those who needed them and selling beers and fruit juices. We had never been cherry picking before so it was quite an experience for us, climbing the ladder and/or trees to get to the cherries. I found the ladders to be quite scary, and was constantly afraid someone was going to fall off them and we'd have to learn where a Czech ER is! For those who don't know us very well, Braydon and Paul have a history of breaking bones! We all came out unscathed, except for a few scratches here and there, and had a nice day in the orchard. Plus now we have lots of cherries!!

Saturday night was our cultural night, but first we had dinner at an entirely gluten free restaurant which was amazing! I could order anything on the menu and not be worried. We started with fried onion rings and ended with strawberry cake and they were delicious. Since Prague is having a bit of a heat wave (like the rest of the world) this weekend, and we were all dressed up, we took an Uber instead of walking or taking public transportation. This felt like such a luxury. Anyway, we Uber'd to The Municipal House and listened to a symphony in this magnificent opera house. They played songs from Vivaldi, Mozart and Dvorak. It was quite beautiful and we all liked the music, but I think we all learned, we are not symphony-going people. ;) Afterwards we rode down in a very old elevator that had an operator and a bench/couch in it to the pub downstairs, which had a cool speakeasy type of vibe and fancy drinks.

Another thing to note. Saturday morning when Paul went out for his normal run, he spotted a crowd of people around a park and a helicopter overhead, from which three paratroopers were parachuting down from. They landed in the park in front of him. He learned that this was a tribute to the 80th Anniversary of Operation Anthropoid. Back in 1942 during the war 2 Czech soldiers were trained in England for this specific operation to assassinate Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich. They parachuted in and then bombed the car that Heydrich was in, they were successful, but the Nazi's obviously didn't let it go. The two men sought refuge in a church here, and eventually committed suicide in the church right before an evident capture. They are known as big heroes here, thus the ceremony Paul witnessed on his run.I forgot to mention that last week, I went to my first Yoga class overseas! It was in a basement of a building in two small rooms with an archway connecting them. The class was in English, which I was grateful for. I really enjoyed the class and hope that I'll have enough courage to attend more yoga classes whilst traveling.Sunday, Father's Day and Juneteenth in the US. Neither of which are celebrated here in Prague. We were invited over to Alyssa and Rhys's apartment for brunch. Alyssa is the daughter of Paul's running friend, this was the second time we were able to hang out with them. It was so nice getting to know them and Rhys cooked us a feast! They introduced us to a new game, Pass the Pigs, and English game, one we will definitely be keeping our eyes open for. After brunch we went to a Film Museum, a really cool interactive museum, which we had entirely to ourselves! I think our favorite part of the museum was when we participated in the Foley process. Foley is the creation of sound for a movie. We watched a short film and then tried to recreate the appropriate sounds. It's much harder than you think! We ended the afternoon at a restaurant that serves all its food via train. We all loved the concept of this place, but it was truly magical watching the joy of the 6 year old boy at the table next to ours.And if you haven't noticed by now, our younger kid is much more cooperative at posing for pictures than the older one! Monday, our last day in Prague. Sunday was the hottest day on record in June here in Prague. Sleeping in the heat with no AC and no fan was next to impossible, and it was raining on Monday so hence another lazy day. We did make it out to see the Dancing House, and then we checked out the church that the above heroes sought refuge in, but unfortunately the crypt was closed. So then we sat at a café-our favorite thing to do! Especially these really cool window seats they have all over the city. The pic below isn't great, but I was trying to show the window seat.Part of the memorial they have set up in front of the church right now.

We leave Prague tomorrow. A quick stop in Linz, then onto Ljubljana.