Shoes

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Happy birthday Melanie!!

This morning was a morning of rest. Having been out late two nights in a row we were tired. After breakfast we both took a nap. Well, I took a nap and Nancy slept. I finally woke her at 12:15 and asked, “Do you want some lunch.” She did.

After lunch we headed for downtown Prague with no set agenda other than to try to find a pair of scissors. Nancy wants to be able to trim our hair and cut things around the apartment. We found the scissors and a few other items. In an outdoor market there was very good looking fruit for sale. We bought a box of strawberries and they are as good as they look.

. Nancy wanted to go back to the complex that surrounds Our Lady of the Snow. She noticed yesterday there is a photography exhibition and wanted to see it. The photos are by a young European man. He travels to very remote parts of the earth and takes utterly fantastic pictures. The exhibit displayed about 32 of his photographs from such diverse areas as Namibia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Karakorum.

“Your pictures aren’t this good,” Nancy said. Of course I was teasing but the pictures were out-of-this-world. The fact that they were perfect in color and composition was one thing and another was that they were around 3 feet by 4 feet in size. All the printing was on a HP plotter. That made for some overwhelming photographic experiences for the viewers. The exhibit was full of people enjoying some of the wildest parts of the planet.

“Someone in my family won’t let me buy a camera as good as his,” I replied.

Of course having a camera of that quality is no guarantee that I or anyone would take pictures as good as the ones he takes. He has both the equipment and an excellent artist’s eye. [Nancy} and the youth and nerve it takes to drag the camera equipment up 20,000 foot mountains and into some of the most remote areas of the entire globe.

As we walked along one of the major streets we passed a shoe store. We know at least two of the readers of this travel journal love shoes.

“Take pictures of the shoes for Sarah C. and Melanie V. to see” Nancy said. [You have to understand Sarah is one of my favorite people in the world and she adores shoes. No shoe shop is safe from New York south in the USA. Melanie is so dear to me words would not tell the tale and she also is a shoe lover. They aren’t Ms. Marcos of Filipino fame but they are in the running.....


“Really,” I said. “You want me to take pictures of shoes.”

“Yes,” Nancy replied, “they will love seeing them.”

We entered the shoe store and I took some pictures. On several you can see the price. Divide the price by 22 and you will have the approximate cost. I believe a person could puncture a football with those sharp points.

We want to go to some orchestral concerts while we are here, but we have not seen a schedule. The National Theater was nearby and we walked there to get one.

“Oh, look at these, ” Nancy said. “We have to go to some of these. Look they are going to do Dvorak’s New World Symphony. And look they are also going to do Vivalei’s The Four Seasons and Smetana’s My Country - Vltava, Mozart’s A little night music, etc.

It is a great disappointment to become excited about an upcoming concert and they to see that the flier is out of date and concerts have already been given. That is what happened to us. These wonderful concerts had been given in February, but the fliers were still in the display rack. We will have to keep our eyes open. Perhaps there will be another opportunity while we are here to attend a concert performing some of these pieces.

By this time it was getting late and cold, so we made our way back to the seminary and called it a day. We are starting to get a good idea of how most of the downtown streets are laid out so we don’t have to be concerned about where there is a metro stop and where there is a bus or tram stop. We find ourselves in much better shape than last summer when we had 5 days here. It’s funny how quickly new environments start to feel homelike and familiar. Of course we still know almost nothing about the greater city but the downtown is less of a mystery than it was just two weeks ago.

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[anonymous]

As we walked along one of the major streets we passed a shoe store. We know at least two of the readers of this travel journal love shoes. Doesn't all woman love shoes???? We all miss seeing you in Christian Forum. TY for sharing this blog with us!!! ChiefGAB