These 21 days went Fast....

Will leave Prague at Noon today, for home. A 9.5 hour Delta flight to JFK. The 21 days I have been back in Prague have been wonderful.

So great to see so many Friends here and to do so many things with them.
So great to enjoy coffee in some of my favorite cafe's.
So great to share lunch, dinner, a bottle of wine or just Time with Friends here.
So great to enjoy minutes again at "My Café."
So great to see my 3 Favorite Castles again.
So great to ..just be....

If you followed the Prague Blog I did every day for almost three years, you know my feelings for Prague, its ambiance, my Friends here and Life here. It still is a comfortable place for me....

BUT, I am ready to come home, be home and to Stay Home. I am looking forward to digging into my new position and working with New Colleagues. I am looking forward so much to Autumn in the Rochester and Finger Lakes area after missing it for the past three years. I am looking forward to being HOME, making a Real HOME again in Fairport, baking Apple pies, dinners, having more opportunities of doing things with my Children and getting into a Life the way it was prior to 2008.
(If that is possible...am hopeful)

The timing of this trip was good, for It has allowed me to focus on the importance of many things in Life and to reconcile many things.

I want to thank two people who allowed me to use the airfare I bought even before I knew them or got to know each of them. They made these 21 days here possible.
Thank you so very much!

...and I want to thank my many friends here in Prague for making these "few" days so wonderful, very special and so enjoyable. I have made friends for a lifetime here in Prague. They all are very special. Thank you to each of you.
Pro ted', Cau a pa pa. Dekuju moc moje Friends.

Now...."Vacation" is OVER..Time to get to WORK!
Here I come!!

NOTE: and this blog is Complete and DONE. Thanks for looking.

Day of Czech Statehood

Today is the 28th of September and is Czech Statehood Day; Den české státnosti. A National Holiday. A Bank Holiday as National Holidays are known here.

On this day in 935, Duke Wenceslas(Vaclav), the monarch and Duke of Bohemia from 921 was murdered by his brother Boleslav in town currently named Stará(Old) Boleslav.

"King" Wenceslas is the patron saint of the Czech People and the Czech Republic. He is revered. Today is also the name day for all Men named Vaclav.

He was the son of Vratislav I, Duke of Bohemia and was from the Přemyslid dynasty. His father was raised in a Christian tradition through his grandfather, Bořivoj, and was converted by Saints Cyril and Methodius, the "apostles to the Slavs"(Very famous Czech Saints)

He was student of Saint Ludmilla, his grandmother. He ascended to power when his father was killed during a pagan backlash against Christianity. His mother Drahomíra, was the "daughter of a pagan tribal chief of the Havolans tribe and was baptized at the time of her marriage" (Thank God! Phew...to think,,,what would have happened if she was not baptized!)

After his death, Wenceslas was canonized as a Saint due to his martyr'd death, as well as several purported miracles that occurred after his death at his tomb, Of course, we know "Good King" Wenceslas in the English-speaking world from the well-known Christmas Carrol "Good King Wenceslas."

“Do or do not... there is no try.” ~ Yoda

Good to the Last drop

for quite awhile.

This Cup may look almost empty, but that is an illusion. It is totally 'full'...of great memories of my friends here at Kávovarna Café and other friends living here in Prague and around the outskirts of Prague.

Thank you to all for a really nice time.

Magic

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!” ~ Goethe

Friends here in Prague

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend

I had the wonderful opportunity to see many many friends(and surprise many as well) here in Prague over these past 3 weeks. Here are just a few for I did not get to photograph everyone I saw here, for that: je mi lito.
From Bottom to top:

Lenka(last but not Least!), Lucka, Terezká & Klára, Petra, Karin, Jana, Eva, Tomáš & Honza(sorry the picture is not clearer), Eva, Alex & Ada, Michal & Andrejka and Alex, a kindred spirit.

and many others who are not pictured here,

Thank you to all of you.

American

..Embassy in Malá strana.

Soon to be a Memory...

..so enjoy one of these anytime I am able.

Kávovarna

"My Café", in Lucerna Passageway, off Stěpánská at number 61. A nice place to spend time and to enjoy a Cappuccino or a glass of wine and to talk with Friends.

Thanks to my Friends there, for welcoming me so tremendously when I first arrived 20 days ago, and then for making it feel just like it did for the two years I visited every day. Terezká, Klára, Anička, Markéta, Petra, Petra, Šarka, Gabína thanks for everything once again and also to the owner, Ivan. Dekuju.

..and so nice to see my Good Friends Alex and Ada there each evening I stopped in, just like 'old' times.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~Lin Yutang

Tuesday

Dino Park

Spent some time in a Dino Park & Playground on the roof of the Harfa Mall in Prague 9 talking with a good Friend and watching her 5 yr old son keep busy... and here he is Clowning around.

Thought this was an interesting 'slide' too. Thanks M.

...and another

Some Black & Whites

Zee French Pastries

perfectly arranged at the Award winning small Pastry shop situated in the Art Nouveau Lucerna and Novak Passages called Patisserie Saint Tropez.

Each of them are a work of Art and they taste as amazing as they look. Their chocolates
are unigue and equally excellent.

Duck, anyone?

...and they will sell them all.

Spotted along a side street on the way to "My" Café.

Evening Tram at 'u Vodarna' stanice

Monday

Two Days Left in Prague

...then all day Wednesday in the airport/airplane/airport/airplane.
Will enjoy these last two days here... saying Hello(still) & Goodbye to Friends

Looking forward to being back Home...

Purple Day a week ago

Jiřiho z Poděbrad at Night

A Friend suggested we meet in front of this church before heading close by for dinner.
When you pop out of the Metro here(top photo), you can't miss it. An easy meeting point for 'Praguers'. Here it is lit up for the night.

This is The Church of the Most Sacred Heart of our Lord (Kostel nejsvětějšího srdce Páně) built between 1928 - 1932 and is strikingly different from most churches / cathedrals in Prague.