Heritage Day

It turned out to be quite an unexpectedly busy day.  First we went to the Amerika street festival that happens every year.  Now food items have gotten quite expensive that I do not feel that its worth it.  There weren't as many good things as there were last year.  We didn't end up getting anything, but since we were close to my favorite bakery, we got some stuff there.  Then we dropped my mom off at a gallery.  Since the gallery was close to the peacock park, of course we went there.  It was a good thing we did because it was Heritage Day and two buildings in the park that are usually closed were open.  We got to enjoy some music that was being played in the small cathedral and enjoyed amazing views from a look out area.  The stairs to go up the look out area were not the best, so I went first.  Once I saw the view, I knew I had to figure out a way to take Amaya and leave the stroller behind.  Luckily there was a woman handing out flyers for the Heritage Day at the bottom of the viewing area who said we could leave the stroller with her.  It was so nice to have a different experience in a place that we visit quite often.  To finish of the day, we went for some ice cream at Puro. 

                                  Amaya's second timing feeding the peacocks from her hand

KitKat F1 Bomber Jacket

I actually won a bomber jacket from the KitKat F1 competition this summer.  I bought 1 racecar KitKat from Lidl and entered my receipt to the website.  I completely forgot about the competition until I received the jacket in the mail.  I got an email saying that I was going to receive a package.  I thought that it was weird because I didn't buy anything online.  Leos looked into it and the sender was a company who sends prizes from competitions.  He also found that there was a scam people were doing when they would send something, but the receiver would have to pay to get the package.  I warned my parents to not pay anything to the delivery driver.  I also told them that if my name wasn't on it, they shouldn't get it.  However, when the driver came with the package, my name was there and they didn't need to pay.  I had my mom video call me while she was opening the package.  I saw the red and only realized once I saw the logo.  That's when I remembered I entered the competition.  I then looked into my junk email and found the winning email there. I didn't realize I would win a jacket, I think I entered to win tickets and didn't know there were other prizes.  I saw that other stores were offering different prizes and I think I got the best one!  Only 200 jackets were distributed in the Czech Republic.  It would be awesome if I could actually get an F1 driver to wear my glasses one day!

                                   this is all I paid to enter the competition..... 61 cents  (or 53 euro cents)

                                                           I thought this was the only prize

                                                          

Summer Deals

This summer and September have been crazy with deals.  My Tastetown app has been crazy with the deals that it offers.  All the food items in this post were for just 1czk each.  I didn't have to buy anything for them to be 1czk.  I literally just paid 1czk and left.  Absolutely crazy!  The bubble machine plus microphone was JUST 22czk. Plus the bubble refill was just 3czk per bottle.  I should've bought more of the bubble machines for her friends the same day I bought hers.  When I tried going back 2 days later all the machines were gone.......

                                                                            sandwich

                                                                    matcha ube latte

                                       the deal included a sauce and they forgot to give it to me

                        got the chicken sandwich a second time and they remembered the sauce

                                                                            lasagna 

                                                   6czk per bottle, buy 1+1 so 3czk each!!!

                                                        everything in the picture cost just 28czk

Palata

A while ago a friend of mine showed me this great place to walk with Amaya.  I go to the place quite often.  When my parents came to visit us at the apartment, I wanted to show my mom that its possible to see sheep in Prague as well.  I have been to this place so many times and the time I go with my mom there was a special event.  When we arrived, there were paintings along the main path painted my the residents of the place.  When we walked further in, there was a table set up of items you could buy for charity.  Of course I had to buy some things.  I appreciate that I can go to this place with Amaya quite often, so I wanted to help in any way I could.  It was a great day to visit and show my mom the place I go almost once a week with Amaya.  There are koi, sheep and birds that she gets to see every time we go. 

                                                           paintings along the main path

                                                          

                                                        items being sold for charity

                                                            wearing the necklace I bought

                                                                all the things we bought

                                                    Amaya loves to stop and smell the flowers

Prague Zoo

Prague Zoo was having a summer special that if you got to the zoo at 5pm, the entrance ticket would only be 100czk.   We decided to go early and walked around the palace nearby.  When it was 4:30pm I thought it would be a good idea to go near the ticket office.  I thought we could buy the ticket for 5pm and then enter.  However, they would only sell the discount tickets once it was 5pm.  I am so happy that we were already in the ticket area and I was in line at 4:50pm.  When it was getting even closer to 5pm, the line was HUGE!!!!  Amaya got to go for free.  It was everyone's first time to the Prague Zoo.  We managed to see a LOT of animals for the time we were there.  The zoo is HUGE and quite spacious.  It was quite hilly as well!  The pavilions closed at 7pm, but the zoo closed at 9pm, so we really had plenty of time.  We didn't managed to see everything, but we were quite satisfied with what we saw.  Amaya was getting quite tired because it was getting close to her bedtime, so we left the zoo at 8:15pm. Once we got to the car, Amaya fell asleep immediately.  We all had a wonderful day at the zoo!

                                                            Prague castle in the distance

                                                                stopping to smell the flowers!