Finally a real entry

So last Wednesday my mother, father, grandmother, and grandfather flew into Prague. Since Thursday was a holiday in the czech republic I headed on up to Prague. It really is a nice city. Way too many tourist but the buildings and the atmosphere are beautiful and fun. It was decent weather, cloudy and foggy, but not too cold and no rain. After a few days in Prague we headed down to Southern Bohemia and stayed in a little town called Cesky Krumlov. This town is just adorable. It has small winding cobble stone roads on the side of a mountain and down into the valley with the Vltava River running through it. In the summer you can go tubbing down the river as well as horse back riding, rock climbing and a ton of hiking trails in the surrounding country side. The castle is perched high on a hill with a beautiful garden located even higher on the hill. Next we took a taxi all the way to Vienna, Austria. It was great because we got to see the real country side and not just tracks. Everyone was very excited to get there passports checked at the borders into and out of the countries. Its amazing how much fun it can be to just collect stamps in your passport.
The taxi driver was very nice but did not speak any english only czech and german. So as we were getting into Vienna and were telling him where he needs to drop us off he pulls over and gets out a map. Which is not always a bad sign he was prepared so he pointed out the hotel and then expected to be taken there. We were wrong. We had to navigate for him. My dad is in the front seat with the map and only speaks english so I moved up to see if i could offer my expert translation skills. Everything is working out fine, thank goodness we went over czech direction words in my czech class. The route is all set it is simple, only 3 roads. Then we get into the city center on the main road we planned to take and about 200 meters up the road it becomes a huge sidewalk. . .ahh so thats why that part of the road is pink on the map you can not really drive on the road. Ok so now we have to make a new plan and we are in the center of the city which means lots of people, cars, and one way roads. So to make a long story short we drove around and around the same building about 8 times because everytime we wanted to turn is was one way, but have no fear we finally found the way. It only mad the 2 hour and 30 minute trip last a little over 4 hours.
Either way it was a lot of fun speaking broken czech and the driver was very nice and patient. The rest of our time in Vienna was spent walking around the city, a boat tour of the Danube river, the Melk Monastary and a horse-drawn carriage ride around the city.
Then it was back to good old Brno and a little bit of fun at the Pegas Brewery/hotel. It was very good to see my family and I hope that had a good time. Any one else who wants to come visit just let me know.