Second Entry This Week

In addition to updating this more frequently, I am also putting my pictures up more.  For those of you who don't know where to find them or didn't know I do that or whatever, you can find my photos at http://davidritch.smugmug.com/Becki-1

In my last entry, I forgot to mention going to see the astronomical clock on it's anniversary.  Last year, the clock was 600 years old, so they did this whole huge video projection on the clock which told the history of it and all that fun stuff.  Since it was so popular, they decided to redo the video projection again this year.  It was mostly the same video as last year, but it was amazing to be able to see it in person.  This is the official video from the show last year, what I saw was pretty similar to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4LVEAiZJyg&feature=related

Since my last entry, two days ago, I haven't done too much.  Yesterday, I was planning on visiting Josefov.  When I got there, it cost money to get to see most of the stuff that I was interested in, so I ended up just wandering around the city.  The interesting thing that I found was an interesting Catholic church.  In the church, they had a statue of the baby Jesus and people had made him clothes and different people would send in their outfit for him.  It seemed really weird to me, the whole idea of playing dress up with a baby Jesus.  But I guess to each their own.

Today, I went to the huge Metronome that's above the above the city.  Back in the days of the Communist era, there was a statue of Stalin there, seemingly watching the city.  When the statue was torn down, they replaced it with a huge metronome.  I don't know the meaning behind the metronome, but it's pretty awesome looking.  From there, you can see the whole city of Prague and there's a nice little park area.  When I was up there, I was able to relax and spend some time doing readings for my classes and just enjoy the beautiful weather.