Birthday Celebration

Gary was teaching in Prague on my birthday, but thankfully the whole family got to join him.  We stayed with some friends of his. 

We heard from several missionaries in Prague about a store that had some American products that you can’t get in Europe (mostly candy type stuff, cereals, etc.). We were eager to check it out, so we went. Sadly, the prices were quite high (a small pack of Big Red gum that has 35 cents labeled on it was over a dollar, all of the candy bars were $2.00—though, Europe has some great chocolate, so that wasn’t such a big deal). However, Gary did buy me this package of cherry Twizzlers, which were $2.00, for my birthday. I really wanted a roll of cherry Lifesavers, which I love, but they were also $2.00, and I felt that we would get more for the money with the Twizzlers. :-)One of the Czech women who was in Gary’s class said that she would babysit the kids for free so we could go out.  That alone was a GREAT birthday present!  Gary asked around and found out about a restaurant that opened since he moved away from Prague.  It was on a boat on the river and was inexpensive (except for having to pay for water to drink—which many of you who know me know that I hate to do that), so we decided to go there to eat dinner and then we walked around Old Town and across the Charles Bridge.