Akimatsuri

This was the 5th Akimatsuri for Leos and I.  I still can't believe that it was our 5th!  We made sure to get to the festival before 12pm, but so many other people had the same idea.  The lines for ramen and takoyaki were crazy.  I told Leos that we shouldn't stay in the same line.  I sent him to the yakisoba line.  He managed to come back to me and I was still waiting to get ramen.  He took Amaya and the stroller to a table, which made carrying the ramen much easier.  Once I got to them, I took a few bites and decided I needed to go to the mochi line before it got too long.  Luckily, there were around 15 people in front of me.  Once I got the mochi, we were done with food lines. I played bingo with Amaya and it was the first time in all the festivals we have been to that I didn't get a double bingo.  It was much more difficult with her. However, I still managed to get bingo and win Amaya some prizes.  I was able to buy Amaya some heat tech from UNIQLO, so I was really happy with that.  I looked at the clouds and I told Leos that we should go.  Once we got into the car, it started to rain and 5 minutes later it was raining quite heavily.  I made a great decision in going.  Plus Amaya fell asleep right away.  It was a wonderful Akimatsuri and we will definitely go again next year!

                             we arrived before 12pm and so many people were ahead of me

                                                        line before 12pm!

                                                                    ramen

                                                                yakisoba

                                                            yummy mochi

                                     Leos testing Amaya which item she liked better

                                                  the clouds were not looking the best

                                        I was happy with the things I brought back home

Free Food and Voting Week

The day started off with me getting a drink for 1czk with the Tastetown app.  When I was going back home I saw that there was something going on in front of Novy Smichov.  It was lunch time and a company was giving away free food to get their name out.  Later in the afternoon, I went to meet with a friend and two teenagers  came up to us asking if we would vote for their principal who is running for Senate.  They told me how the students are mainly running the campaign and I was super impressed with them.  The next day, the food stand was again at Novy Smichov so I told Leos to come meet me for lunch.  I couldn't believe they even gave us several frozen food items to take home.  Luckily we had space in our freezer.  Then we went to Klamovka and a politican was giving bags and balloons away.  The next day I went to a playground with Amaya and on the way there I got free ice cream from another politician.  The free stuff this week was crazy. 

                                                                        1czk

                                                                items to choose from

                                                                    my free lunch

                                                                Czech Republic 10,733

                                                                Czech Republic

                                                 went the next day for lunch with Leos

                                            items they gave us for free to take home!

                                                                Amaya loving balloons

                                                                free bag

                                                   free ice cream, pen and stickers

Prague Castle with Amaya

It had been a while since we walked to the castle, so we thought it was about time we went again.  The weather was nice and there weren't that many people there.  Amaya enjoyed walking around and didn't really want to be in the stroller. We managed to go to Wallenstein garden for a few minutes before they closed.  It was a nice walk. 

Vienna

We stayed two nights in Vienna.  The day we arrived, we arrived in the afternoon because we needed to pick my parents up from the bus terminal.  The bus terminal in Vienna is shockingly bad.  I thought it would be much better, but I was very surprised at how poor it was.  After we got my parents, we were able to check into the hotel.  We really didn't do much on the day we arrived.  The next day was really busy.  First, we enjoyed breakfast at the hotel.  The egg section for the buffet was quite impressive.  I was surprised to see eggs benedict being offered.  I was quite happy with that.  After our huge breakfast we took the metro to Schonbrunn to walk through the Rustenalle.  The park was so nice to walk through.  We went to the Neptune fountain and a nice view point of the park.  Then we made our way back to the hotel.  However, since the weather was quite nice, Leos, Amaya and I went to a nearby park.  After a bit of sun we went back to the hotel.  Leos was tired so he stayed in.  I was hungry and wanted to grab a bratwurst so I took Amaya with me.  I thought it would be a shame to just go back to the hotel, so I decided to wander around a bit.  I am so happy that I did because I ended up in the main square.  I couldn't believe it. I finally recognized that I was in Vienna a few years ago.  It was nice to explore a bit with Amaya.  We even made it for Sunday mass in St. Stephen's cathedral.  We only stayed for a few minutes because I needed to get Amaya back for bed. It was a wonderful day! 

                                                                yummy bar

                                                    matcha chocolate getting out of hand!

                                                    so many pumpkins in the fields