WOOHOO, today is the last day of April...and OMG there is a special holiday tradition here in Prague i have been waiting for- but that is for later.
Yesterday April 29th: Well we made it to the Park Inn Hotel on outskirts of the town- walked for hours checking our surroundings and made it across the street for Italian food...i had spaghetti and Jules had an amazing pizza (if they are open tomorrow i plan to get some). Found Starbucks for my dau Sarah and got a mug. Since many of the Starbucks wont let u take photos, i filmed them on the sly and purchased a mug and an iced tea- finally for the first time since Apr 21 i have had an iced tea. it was either green (eww) or fruit tea (really good) so i turn the corner inside the business to grab some sweet and low and i go to turn off the camera recording and i drop the mug and it shatters-there is a really good chance that is on tape...crappola so i go to the counter where they heard everything and tell me to get another mug even though i try repeatedly to pay for the 2nd one, they would not let me. this time though they wrapped it with lots of tissue paper around it so i can knock it down some stairs like Ace Ventura pet detective and it wont break. they were so awesome, i was able to go behind the counter and have a photo with them and a shout out to Sarah from Prague! (on video)...there were thrilled that i was going to send them mugs from the USA as a thank you. They were soooooooooooooooo sweet to me. had a group hug of sorts and Jules and i were on our way again then night, night time.
so day is Sat, Apr 30 which is the last day of the April and beginning of Spring. They have a tradition where they gather to build a bonfire and create an effigy of the witch that kept winter around so long. first they tie two sticks together to make a cross, they stuff old shifts, skirts and socks with straw and then put a pointed hat on top. they feel that as the fire burns the witch, itis thought to also warm the weather. so i know this is going on cuz i googled the shit out it before we left...and i am wandering around and all of a sudden i hear a beating drum so i am drawn to it like a bar of chocolate, and then i see the "witch" bobbing up and down above a large crowd of people...cool...as i get closer i see hundreds of people dressed as witches, young and old alike,,,with crooked noses, mice/rats on them, bloodied, and 2 male executioners with man boobs under their red robes pulling a wagon with hay and atop of it is a female (the witch) in chains. Awesome, mama likes that someone gonna get fried tonight! so, they parade around and hoot and holler and many of them have branches from trees later used to fan the flames...so some dude comes out (ooh, i think i am on TV) oh sorry. back to the story- so random dude- maybe somebody important cuz the media was there...tried and sentenced the witch to die...awesome, wish california would do it this fast...but then the effigy on the stick gets placed on a pyre of wood about 4 feet all around like a square...the fire dept pours a shitload of lighter fluid on it and we watch it burn, the other witches dance around her fanning the flames...hey, if they are witches also, why would they kill one of their own- there is a flaw in their reasoning...ahahha anyway,
***omg it deleted my entry again...so here i am editing it yet again, so she burns, and once she is done they have a shitload of candy for kids, and cotton candy, the fire dept and police were serving soup (OMG) and schnitzels and stuff to eat all FREE. i am so proud of myself that i weasled right up to the VERY FRONT having been all the way in the back,.damn i'm good!
finished the night with a curlyl cinnamon roll thing...will take a photo tomorrow if they are not closed for May Day (May 1st is national holiday) stupid ass computer deleted all the other stuff i typed, buti spent the earlier part of the day on a foot, boat and tram tour of prague and the castle and included a 3 course meal and a ghost tour i will take tomorrow night. saw lots of animal bones in a huge ass wall...visited the Museum of Torture Instruments and even grossed me out...bought a tee shirt it was so cool and gross,must be where sickos get their ideas from. my son would love it.
taking it easy tomorrow....gonna eat crap, rest my feet, sleep in...eat more crap then off to the ghost tour at night. We leave day after tomorrow for hell, i mean california. - signing out, becks
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